Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are we ready?

Journal article

Abstract:: COVID-19 forced humanity to think about new ways of working globally without physically being present with other people, and eXtended Reality (XR) systems (defined as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality) offer a potentially elegant solution. Previously seen as mainly for gaming, commercial and research institutions are investigating XR solutions to solve real world problems from training, simulation, mental health, data analysis, and studying disease progression. More recently large corporations such as Microsoft and Meta have announced they are developing the Metaverse as a new paradigm to interact with the digital world. This article will look at how visualization can leverage the Metaverse in bioinformatics research, the pros and cons of this technology, and what the future may hold.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: immersive

metaverse

mixed reality

visualization

augmented reality

virtual reality

FFR

bioinformatics
Pubs id:: 1263419
Local pid:: pubs:1263419
Deposit date:: 2022-06-13

Copyright holder:: Taylor and Soneji
Rights statement:: © 2022 Taylor and Soneji. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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