Doctors in Canada designing a virtual world for children
News.com.au
“Doctors in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatised children with colourful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets.
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Avatars, Computers, and Robots Are Coming to Primary Care
Kent Bottles
“Within in five years primary care providers will begin being replaced by sociable humanoid robots, avatars, and computer programs. Within ten years you will no longer hear any complaints about medical students choosing specialty residencies over family practice because the role of the physician will be completely redefined to complement a rules based approach to the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases.
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Real-time 3D avatars for tele-rehabilitation in virtual reality
Kurillo G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
We present work in progress on a tele-immersion system for telerehabilitation using real-time stereo vision and virtual environments. Stereo reconstruction is used to capture user’s 3D avatar in real time and project it into a shared virtual environment, enabling a patient and therapist to interact remotely.
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