Metaverse and Personal Healthcare
Yeong-Tae Song, Jiachen Qin
Abstract
Metaverse refers to the virtual world in which user's altered ego or avatar acts. With recent advancement in information technologies - IoT, wearable sensors, 3D-modeling, and AI, metaverse has created new research opportunities in various domains. Healthcare is one of the most important and attractive domains. During the pandemic, we have limited access to healthcare systems, which created serious health problems to many. In this paper, we are introducing an overview of the technology and concepts about metaverse based healthcare that can help us maintaining our health as well as extending the access to healthcare system. In a metaverse, health related technologies may include augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and digital twin, where our focus is given to digital twin. In our approach, we proposed to use digital twins for the assessment and maintenance of personal health. Personalized risk factors such as behavioral, vital signs, or observed symptoms are used to determine potential diseases to monitor. The quality of digital twin may be determined by the completeness, frequency of update, and accuracy of data.