VR Innovator Seeking Medical Experts to Help Build Out Multi-User, Immersive Information Hub for Battling the Coronavirus

The Coronavirus VR Information Hub is a new space created in Acadicus, a multi-user VR-based teaching platform lead developed by Jon Brouchoud, who's been creating award-winning virtual world-based projects for real world work for well over a decade. As the name suggests, Brouchoud and team created the hub to gather information and VR demos/models to help fight the Coronavirus -- and he's seeking medical instructors/professional with access to VR equipment and Coronavirus-related experiences, advice, or 3D demonstrations to share. (Contact information on the site.)

"VR is an ideal medium for simulating and rehearsing rare or dangerous situations in a safe environment before working with human patients," Jon tells me. "Our goal is to continue working with healthcare providers to share their expertise, and continue gathering information about the skills and procedures needed to effectively combat coronavirus.

"In a situation like this, where millions of medical professionals suddenly and urgently need potentially life-saving training and practice managing infectious disease, VR could enable rapid remote training far superior to anything available today.  When it comes to skills training, immersive VR offers much higher bandwidth and retention over flat-screen 2D video."

Here's an example of the kind of content they're looking for:

"[T]the meticulous process of properly donning personal protective equipment (PPE).  In the near future, we'll have the ability to virtually simulate this type of training, which could help ensure front-line healthcare providers are optimally prepared for any situation they'll encounter." (Assuming the providers also have a VR headset, to learn and practice this training in Acadicus. "That combined with the ability to bring experts together from different geographic locations in the same virtual space could also become a powerful opportunity for collaboration and sharing experiences."

Jon tells me they're planning to do live multi-user events and lectures in the future too. More about it here.

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