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The virtual twin, a double for better care

2022-08-12T15:15:57.420Z


DIVING INTO PARALLEL UNIVERSES (5/5) - The world of health is making massive use of digital technology to improve its performance.


The concept of metaverse promises for the next few years a virtual universe parallel to the real world where millions of humans would connect to have fun, exchange, work, consume or live new experiences.

Virtual worlds already exist in the video game, health or industrial sectors, prefiguring the possibilities of tomorrow.

Welcome to the future.

A new treatment tested on a large scale on virtual patients, a surgeon who tirelessly repeats a complicated gesture until he has mastered it perfectly, a hospital entirely reconstructed in 3D on a computer… The digital twin is present in all areas of health, replicating as well the infinitely small, DNA, a microbe or a bacterium as the very large, buildings, or the extremely complex, a heart or a brain.

The digital twin is the realistic counterpart of the metaverse, with a notable difference between these two concepts.

Metaverses are more or less fanciful worlds…

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Source: lefigaro

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