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Digitalization shapes the ways of learning, working, and entertainment. The Internet, which enables us to connect and socialize is evolving to become the metaverse, a post-reality universe, enabling virtual life parallel to reality. In addition to gaming and entertainment, industry and academia have noticed the metaverse’s benefits and possibilities. For industry, the metaverse is the enabler of the future digital workplace, and for academia, digital learning spaces enable realistic virtual training environments. A connection bridging the virtual world with physical production systems is required to enable digital workplaces and digital learning spaces. In this publication, extended reality–digital twin to real use cases are presented. The presented use cases utilize extended reality as high-level user interfaces and digital twins to create a bridge between virtual environments and robotic systems in industry, academia, and underwater exploration.
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xR-enabled Digital Twins Applications in Longitudinal Trials
Digital Twin (DT) technology offers real-time monitoring, simulation, optimization, and precise forecasting. However, its theoretical framework and practical implementation, particularly in digital random controlled trials (RCT), remain underdeveloped, limiting its full potential. Therefore, we seek to develop an application of digital twins with the virtual reality using data from four longitudinal RCT in Massachusetts. As case studies, we create digital twins of two individuals from these RCT. This application of digital twins provides an avenue for a more personalized healthcare experience for patients, the enhancement of medical simulations, and a visualization for predictive analytics. In the future, we will move from virtual reality to extended reality with AI-generated digital twin models.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2140729
- PAR ID:
- 10651742
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 492 to 493
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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