Adrian writes about various sectors in which virtual reality has been making life easier and more efficient.
Most people have been aware of the various types of virtual reality machines appearing on the market in recent years, but these have largely been limited to entertainment and gaming options. There are many other uses of VR which have been making life easier and more efficient for various professionals in different industrial sectors.
1. Healthcare Uses
One of the most important uses for virtual reality and one of the most quickly adopted is the healthcare sector. The use of scans and ultrasounds has been important for many years, but these are now being adapted using virtual reality to allow surgeons to plot a path through the body to damaged areas. Patients are also given the opportunity to use VR during rehabilitation sessions following surgery and trauma which used to be completed using costly physical therapists.
2. Workplace Training
There are many options in workplace training which can be completed using virtual reality to reduce time lost to expensive tours of a building. Fire safety and basic workplace orientation can often be completed in the virtual realm with a digital recreation of the workplace explored by users.
3. Archeology
There have been numerous uses of virtual reality to develop recreations of lost buildings. Data was used to create a virtual reality version of a 4,000-year-old village in Scotland to give historians the chance to explore the village in three dimensions. Similar techniques have been used to create a time travel project featuring the Coney Island Luna Park which changes as the years are scrolled through.
4. Interpreting Data
Virtual reality may have been developed to give gamers a new way of exploring their favorite landscapes, but investors have also benefitted from the chance to monitor the stock markets in a virtual environment. The simple interpretation of data has been a significant part of the rise of virtual reality for the financial markets.
5. Automotive design
The auto industry has been one of the major beneficiaries of the development of virtual reality as designers can explore their plans before embarking on concept and prototype vehicles. Creating a virtual version of a car in all its glory allows experts from various departments the opportunity to have their own input on the design being created. Savings in terms of the manufacture of a prototype vehicle are huge and should be pushed back to consumers in the coming years.
6. Legal Uses
The courtroom has always been a controversial and divisive space with still images the norm for use in providing jury members with a view of a crime scene. Advances in virtual reality are making it easier for jurors and legal experts to use headsets to explore 3-D versions of a crime scene to get a better view of the crimes they are working with.
7. Meditation
The modern world is a difficult one to navigate with 24-hour access to cell phones and various mobile devices making it difficult to find any period of peace in our busy day. Virtual reality allows a user to create their own happy place and spend some time in their chosen environment no matter if they are at work, at home, or in the middle of their commute.
The arrival of virtual reality in all aspects of modern life with its impact only set to grow in the coming years. Almost every sector of life will soon see virtual reality making its way into the work being completed soon with more possibilities being uncovered every day.