Technologies that will emerge at the end of quarantine
The spread of the coronavirus has generated an unprecedented worldwide crisis. Surely, not even the most pessimistic people expected the repercussions caused by Covid-19. The streets of major cities empty, the economy paralyzed, millions of people confined to their homes…. In these difficult times, it is important to focus all efforts on staying at home, curbing contagion and relieving the health system. However, it is also necessary to start considering new strategies to prevent crises like this one from recurring in the future. In this regard, new technologies such as virtual reality or augmented reality offer multiple solutions to minimize the risk of contagion once the quarantine is over.
Virtual reality, the ultimate tool for teleworking in times of quarantine.
Virtual reality has proven to be the perfect technology to implement teleworking in companies in a definitive way. Thanks to VR, travel can be reduced and face-to-face meetings, potential sources of contagion, can be minimized. In addition, it is an excellent tool for providing professional training to workers safe from the coronavirus. The main advantage of virtual reality for professional training is that it allows any scenario to be simulated quickly, easily and economically. In this way, for example, an industrial technician can learn and perfect his skills with heavy machinery without the risk of accidents. All this, from the comfort of an office or even his home. Thus, the possibility of contracting Covid-19 in a classroom training is eliminated. Just as VR minimizes the risk of contagion in worker training, it does the same for meetings and conferences. Virtual reality companies have developed applications that are perfectly suited to the remote organization of such events. Unlike videoconferencing, VR allows high levels of interaction and nonverbal language between the different participants in a remote meeting.
VR in leisure and free time: much more than video games.
Although the coronavirus crisis is having serious human, labor and economic consequences, it is important to try to look for the positive side of any circumstance, no matter how terrible it may be. In this case, we only need to take a look at social networks to see the less negative side of the quarantine: we have a lot of free time. These days it is common to see how our friends and acquaintances post their exercises at home or plan the first trip they will take once the quarantine is lifted. For these types of activities, virtual reality also offers interesting solutions that can reduce the risk of contagion when we can finally leave the house. During quarantine, exercising at home has become a necessity to maintain a healthy lifestyle. However, working out at home can be especially boring. For this reason, many people are likely to return to gyms when the alarm condition lifts. However, these types of facilities are conducive to the spread of diseases such as Covid-19: enclosed, busy spaces where it is almost impossible to keep a safe distance. In addition, fitness machines in gyms are sources of infection in their own right. To solve this problem, virtual reality developers have created applications that allow users to exercise while enjoying fully immersive and interactive experiences. In this way, they make training at home a much more bearable and entertaining activity.
Maybe not everyone is getting the willpower to exercise at home.
However, there is a way to distract ourselves that we have all resorted to: imagine what we will do as soon as we can leave the house.
In this sense, virtual reality has applications to visualize real scenarios from the comfort of the couch.
This allows us to “visit” in advance the tourist destinations we would like to go to so that, when we can finally enjoy a good trip, we do not miss any attraction to visit.
Augmented reality, the solution to prevent coronavirus in stores.
In addition to VR, other technologies such as augmented reality can also help in prevention against coronavirus once the quarantine is lifted. According to an article published by Health magazine, the coronavirus can survive for up to a day in an article of clothing. Although this may not seem like a long period of time, think about it: how many people enter clothing stores in large cities during the course of a day? While these stores remove the clothes that others have tried on, what about the clothes that people touch, but don’t get to try on? Augmented reality agencies have been developing applications adapted to the needs of retail for some time now. Thanks to this technology, special mirrors have been developed that allow us to superimpose an article of clothing on our body, without having to put it on. In this way, we can continue to buy our clothes in person, reducing the chances of contracting Covid-19.
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