HOSPITALS
“ For example , if you ’ re caring for someone with hearing or vision loss , the immersive experience will effectively simulate what that experience feels like so that you can learn first-hand how difficult it is to keep up with tasks that would otherwise feel very easy for you ,” says Lindl . “ This fosters a greater understanding and connection with those being cared for which can create a more harmonious patient-carer dynamic .”
Another healthcare application that Unity technology enables is Augment Therapy , an AR experience that engages patients of all ages in immersive , gamified technology to improve rehabilitative healthcare .
“ The AR experience is designed particularly to help children in hospitals , often those with intense pain , to get out of bed to conduct physical therapy and ultimately become well enough to go home ,” she explains .
Beyond helping patients , the tech also helps the healthcare industry by reducing patients ’ length of stay , the cost and staffing pressures .
In partnership with Level Ex , Unity is designing state-of-the-art medical video games to train physicians on the most modern techniques and technologies for practising medicine .
“ Their high quality immersive content trains doctors in cardiology , pulmonology , gastroenterology and anesthesiology , with more specialties on the way ,” says Lindl .
She adds : “ While mobile game Apart of Me helps youth cope with loss or grief through the expression and management of emotions ranging from loneliness to anger , overwhelm and fear . Cincinnati Children ’ s Hospital and Unity are co-developing a virtual reality-based surgical simulation platform to connect surgeons worldwide to collaboratively plan complex paediatric heart surgeries using real-time anatomic digital twin data .”
46 September 2023