VR for Medical Training and Therapeutic Applications?
A friend working in healthcare recently received a grant to purchase an Oculus Rift/Touch and suitable computer. The purpose is to evaluate potential patient applications as supplemental therapy, and for practitioner training purposes Examples include treatments for pain, phantom limb, agoraphobia, etc., and training such as emergency medicine and CPR.
I thought I'd find something on the Oculus store or Steam but haven't found anything suitable apart from possibly some meditation apps. There is a very basic CPR 'Experience' in the Oculus store, but nothing else I could find. Plenty of YouTube videos and articles about using VR for Healthcare, but I can't find any apps or open source software.
Perhaps the hospitals and clinical centers hired or collaborated with developers and it's not public domain. My friend has no budget for development and I'm hoping someone here might have suggestions? Thanks!
Posted Mar 23, 2018, 12:08 AM UTC
Hullooo,
I'm one of those developers working on a VR health app. I can't speak for others but in my case it is pretty secretive without any public announcement or assets or anything yet.
In my opinion the mediation apps kind of suck. They assume the sort of people who are into that are willing to buy anything"new agey" (I say this as someone who knows the developers for one of these sorts of apps).
At least a few apps are quietly going through their first small scale trials. But it would be easy enough to make an app that isn't already licensed and proven. What sort of app was he hoping to find? What does he think would be helpful?
Cheers, Calem