{"id":142790,"date":"2022-07-24T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T01:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/medicine-and-the-metaverse-new-tech-allows-doctors-to-travel-inside-of-your-body"},"modified":"2022-07-24T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T01:02:23","slug":"medicine-and-the-metaverse-new-tech-allows-doctors-to-travel-inside-of-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/medicine-and-the-metaverse-new-tech-allows-doctors-to-travel-inside-of-your-body","title":{"rendered":"Medicine and the metaverse: New tech allows doctors to travel inside of your body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpTQTu7A6SI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Interested in learning what\u2019s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. <a href=\"https:\/\/gbsnext.venturebeat.com\/home?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=boiler&utm_content=landingpage&utm_campaign=BoilerPlates\">Register today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world of technology is rapidly shifting from flat media viewed in the third person to immersive media experienced in the first person. Recently dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2022\/02\/05\/metaverse-101-defining-the-key-components\/\">the metaverse<\/a>,\u201d this major transition in mainstream computing has ignited a new wave of excitement over the core technologies of <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/12\/28\/future-augmented-reality-will-inherit-the-earth\">virtual and augmented reality<\/a>. But there is a third technology area known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telepresence\">telepresence<\/a> that is often overlooked but will become an important part of the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>While virtual reality brings users into simulated worlds, <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeetv.ieee.org\/video\/thomas-b-sheridan-reflections-on-the-origins-of-telepresence\">telepresence<\/a> (also called telerobotics) uses remote robots to bring users to distant places, giving them the ability to look around and perform complex tasks. This concept goes back to science fiction of the 1940s and a seminal short story by Robert A. Heinlein entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waldo_(short_story)\">Waldo<\/a>. If we combine that concept with another classic sci-fi tale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Fantastic_Voyage_Motion_Picture\/V_hvDwAAQBAJ?hl=en\">Fantastic Voyage<\/a> (1966), we can imagine tiny robotic vessels that go inside the body and swim around under the control of doctors who diagnose patients from the inside, and even perform surgical tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in learning what\u2019s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. The world of technology is rapidly shifting from flat media viewed in the third person to immersive media experienced in the first person. Recently dubbed \u201cthe metaverse,\u201d this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}