HTC Vive, not only pure gaming. Here comes the app for healthcare professionals

The gaming is undoubtedly one of the areas of application of HTC Vive that, more than others, is able to attract and intrigue the consumer audience. As mentioned on other occasions, however, it would be simplistic to consider the virtual reality viewer developed by Taiwanese exclusively as a gaming device, since it allows you to open the horizons are much wider. An example is the project of the University of Oxford, that HTC has chosen to support, is aimed at creating an app for the training of health professionals working in Africa.

The crowdsourced project, which has already collected 20,000 pounds with the first round of funding which was also attended by HTC, will utilize the viewer Lives in conjunction app called LIFE (Life-Saving Instruction for Emergencies) for the training of health professionals called upon to handle emergency situations with specific reference to those involving infants. Choosing purposes certainly not causal, starting from data of over one million infant deaths in the first twenty-eight days of life in Africa, two thirds of which, according to figures from the World Health Organization, could have been able to save by making the appropriate changes .

Enclosed in a typical formal aspect of playful titles, LIFE, whose arrival is expected in the mobile version, may be a useful help business operators called upon to identify and manage medical emergencies in Africa. The application was developed by medical personnel in Kenya and Oxford and scope for consideration as the use of virtual reality in the health sector can improve the training activities by offering a high level of realism and involvement. A pilot project which, if it were to achieve the desired results, it could also be applied in other continents.

Cher Wang, commented in these terms the project HTC CEO: "Virtual reality has huge potential in the medical field and the LIFE game is a great example of how an interactive game can speed up the training of thousands of health workers ... . We are proud to partner with the University of Oxford to this innovative application for our virtual reality system Lives ".

LIFE, in particular, provides correct knowledge and clinically approved on emergency interventions to be provided to infants and children, the operator can demonstrate that they have learned the correct sequence of decisions necessary to meet emergency needs, promotes competition between operators the system and other physical operators and can be faced not only with the VIVE viewer but also with simple low-cost smartphone. The project, as told to crowdsourced kind, aims to collect compelssivamente £ 100,000 over the next 12 months. In the final garment, LIFE should offer the user the ability to interact in a 3D hospital reproduced in virtual form through the Lives or explorable via smartphones.