Not so long ago, we were approached by a client who was interested in boosting both the level of trust in his institution and patients loyalty, so our team came up with a great demonstration material for him — a VR application that allows the patient to plunge into immersive VR stimulation: move around the MRI cell and interact with different objects — after all, visual demonstration makes the process of learning much interactive and understandable. This step not only helped to increase the level of trust, but also, due to the visual element helped patients to understand how certain processes in the hospital go. Now let's have a closer look at this application and its conceptual component.
In this particular example, we see that virtual reality technology can be widely used in healthcare/pharma industry and has a great potential for different education, training and adaptation scenarios. So, let's see in what other ways virtual reality applications can be helpful for the patients.
There are special VR simulators that help to get rid of phantom pains for people who have lost limbs. They affect the minds of patients and thus cure some psychological disorders and alleviate the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder veterans may have. Patients with extensive burns of the body suffer from severe pains that cannot be completely removed with medication. Exclusively for them there was developed a virtual game SnowWorld. The action takes place in the ice world, snowmen and penguins are the enemies, and all weapons are made of ice and snow. According to research results, thanks to this game, burn patients' thinking about the pain decreased in three times. It has been proven that VR reduces the time on pain concentration by up to 48%, while opioids only by 10%.