Hospital Patients Test App for Metaverse Excursions

Hospital walls no longer have to be barriers to patients who dream of going on trips with their families or greeting visitors through a meeting app that is currently being tested.
 
The application, Medical Meetup, started its trial run on Aug. 1 at Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo, so users can see one another in a virtual reality space.
 
“Expanding the scope of visitors and the metaverse may allow hospitalized children to go on virtual school walks and trips with classmates, too,” said Junya Fujimura, an associate professor of pediatrics at the hospital’s Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, expressing high expectations.
 
Through Medical Meetup, patients and guests can engage in conversations and exchange high fives through their avatars on a white beach with sprawling blue ocean waters on their app-installed smartphone displays.


Source: Asahi Shimbun