A Study of Converging Technologies towards the Development of AR/VR-based u-Healthcare Systems

Abstract

The Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are visualized to revolutionize the medical and healthcare industry. This paper deals with the study on the converging technologies towards the development of AR/V-based u-Healthcare systems. The various significant technologies that were converging to realize the development of the future AR/VR-based u-Healthcare system will be discussed such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), ubiquitous computing, wireless communication technologies and mobile computing, AR/VR technologies, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The comparative analysis among these converging technologies highlighting their advantages have resulted to significant contributions and implications towards the future u-Healthcare systems. This convergence leads to having the significant features for the future AR/VR-based u-Healthcare systems such as medical training, treatment administration, and disease awareness. Hence, the cognitive impairment diagnosis and treatment will be highly alleviated.