Industry Analysis: The largest market for medical or VR is especially suitable for the treatment of mental illness

The Shanghai Mental Health Center published a study to treat social phobia through the application of VR technology, which is the first time that China has introduced VR technology into the therapeutic field from live surgery. The way is to create a controllable virtual environment through VR to enhance the depth and effectiveness of traditional exposure therapy interventions.

1, VR control situation can help the treatment of the disease before this, whether AR or VR have tried to enter the medical field, although the most desirable application situation can be achieved through AR / VR assisted surgery, even to achieve remote surgery, but in the short term Look, such an idea is difficult to achieve.

The main reason is not technical problems. After all, many academic research reports point out its feasibility, but the medical risks are not for medical personnel. After all, there is already a risk of error in direct medical treatment. If you add pictures and information through virtual images, the risk will be further improved. This is also difficult for the medical field to directly apply AR/VR to actual medical treatment. The reason, so the information that is often seen is the application of VR/AR in teaching, through the induction teaching of AR information, and the actual medical case reduction of VR film, to improve the efficiency and quality of personnel training.

However, in fact, VR has applied various situational treatment applications including phobias, such as social phobia, anxiety, rehabilitation, vision correction, etc., which are characterized by psychological treatment or actual environmental treatment, but in the past The effectiveness of treatment will be affected by too many uncertain factors in the real environment, so that the treatment effect is often not as expected, or it takes a lot of time and resources to be effective.

Therefore, through VR application, the patient can be in a highly realistic situation, and the whole environment can be controlled by the physician, reducing the risk of uncertainty and improving the treatment efficiency. Therefore, many manufacturers develop these uses. VR applications such as Psious, Deepstream VR, MindMaze, and Vivid Vision.