Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready?
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, com...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-ed8577e026b04a17a2fa945fc1d3512a2022-12-22T02:22:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Bioinformatics2673-76472022-05-01210.3389/fbinf.2022.863676863676Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready?Stephen Taylor0Shamit Soneji1Shamit Soneji2Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Group, MRC Weatherall Institute of Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United KingdomDivision of Molecular Hematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, SwedenLund Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, SwedenCOVID-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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbinf.2022.863676/fullmetaversevirtual realityaugmented realitymixed realityvisualizationimmersive |
| spellingShingle | Stephen Taylor Shamit Soneji Shamit Soneji Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? Frontiers in Bioinformatics metaverse virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality visualization immersive |
| title | Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? |
| title_full | Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? |
| title_fullStr | Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? |
| title_short | Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready? |
| title_sort | bioinformatics and the metaverse are we ready |
| topic | metaverse virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality visualization immersive |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbinf.2022.863676/full |
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