As the healthcare sector adopts and adapts to rapid technological advancement, XR is expected to be increasingly important with use cases and applications in a number of areas including: patient education and self-care, augmented/assisted surgical procedures, VR surgical training, augmented diagnosis through visual representations, analytics and scenarios, medical training through immersive offline practical training, improved first aid through hands-free AR, XR assisted exposure therapy for treating psychological conditions, pain management through VR, AR for pharmaceutical marketing and advertising and simplified hospital navigation.
With advancements in XR technology and the subsequent emergence of new applications evaluating, personalising, and optimizing the user experience will be crucial to its widespread adoption. Biometrics research has the potential to assess and enhance the user experience by leveraging physiological data to monitor emotional and cognitive responses to XR environments e.g., electroencephalography (EEG), electrooculography (EOG), electromyography (EMG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) can be used to measure brain activity, eye movements, muscle activity and heart rate. This data can be analysed in real-time to evaluate and adapt the XR experience and create more immersive and compelling content and interfaces tailored to the user's needs and preferences.
The XR (Extended Reality) Health Hub provides access to research, expertise, software development and demonstrations and equipment with a focus on health in state-of-the-art equipment facilities.