Significant applications of virtual reality for COVID-19 pandemic

Ravi Pratap Singh; Mohd Javaid; Ravinder Kataria; Mohit Tyagi; Abid Haleem; Rajiv Suman

doi:10.1016/j.dsx.2020.05.011

Significant applications of virtual reality for COVID-19 pandemic

Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Jul-Aug;14(4):661-664. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.05.011. Epub 2020 May 12.

Authors

Ravi Pratap Singh¹, Mohd Javaid², Ravinder Kataria³, Mohit Tyagi⁴, Abid Haleem⁵, Rajiv Suman⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Electronic address: singhrp@nitj.ac.in.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Electronic address: mjavaid@jmi.ac.in.
³ School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Electronic address: kataria.ravinder07@gmail.com.
⁴ Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Electronic address: tyagim@nitj.ac.in.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Electronic address: haleem.abid@gmail.com.
⁶ Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. Electronic address: raje.suman@gmail.com.

Abstract

Background and aims: During COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are using innovative technologies for fast-tracking the development to end this menace. Virtual Reality (VR) also offers an imperative role for fighting this pandemic, through audiovisual-based virtual communication.

Methods: A brief study on Virtual Reality and its applications for the COVID-19 pandemic is carried out by employing keywords as Virtual reality or VR and COVID-19 from the databases of SCOPUS, Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of science Academia and ResearchGate.

Results: VR is beneficial for remote sites for exploring telemedicine, planning, treatment, and controlling of the infections by providing proper awareness to the people regarding this disease.

Conclusions: VR technology develops a platform to reduce the face to face interaction of doctors with the infected COVID-19 patients. Through live video streaming, it helps to improve surveillance systems on the ongoing situation.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemic; VR; VR Applications; Virtual reality.

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Health Care Surveys
Humans
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Patient Education as Topic
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Telemedicine / trends*
Virtual Reality*