Evolution of Virtual and Augmented Reality in Health: A Reflection from 15 Years of SVR

Abstract

The relevance of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR) in health is directly related to the quality of services in this field. Thus, research and applications can be found focusing on the training of professionals, planning of procedures and rehabilitation of patients, besides many others. This paper presents an overview of VAR in health from the researches published in SVR proceedings in the last 15 years. Some highlights found refer to the prevalence of research on training, followed by researches on interactive visualization and rehabilitation. A limited participation of companies from the productive sector was also observed, as well as few studies including professionals of the health area. From those and other results was possible to trace a panorama and analyze the evolution of the researches in VAR for health.