• Diabetes Metab Syndr · Jul 2020

    Significant applications of virtual reality for COVID-19 pandemic.

    • Ravi Pratap Singh, Mohd Javaid, Ravinder Kataria, Mohit Tyagi, Abid Haleem, and Rajiv Suman.
    • Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Electronic address: singhrp@nitj.ac.in.
    • Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Jul 1; 14 (4): 661-664.

    Background And AimsDuring COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are using innovative technologies for fast-tracking the development to end this menace. Virtual Reality (VR) also offers an imperative role for fighting this pandemic, through audiovisual-based virtual communication.MethodsA brief study on Virtual Reality and its applications for the COVID-19 pandemic is carried out by employing keywords as Virtual reality or VR and COVID-19 from the databases of SCOPUS, Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of science Academia and ResearchGate.ResultsVR is beneficial for remote sites for exploring telemedicine, planning, treatment, and controlling of the infections by providing proper awareness to the people regarding this disease.ConclusionsVR technology develops a platform to reduce the face to face interaction of doctors with the infected COVID-19 patients. Through live video streaming, it helps to improve surveillance systems on the ongoing situation.Copyright © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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