Medical education in the metaverse - Nature.com

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In his 1992 publication Snow Crash, subject fabrication writer Neal Stephenson coined the word “metaverse”, a portmanteau betwixt “meta” and “universe”, to envision an alternate abstraction to flight reality. Over the decades, the metaverse has been linked to environments characterized by avatars and virtual world (VR), augmented world (AR) oregon mixed reality, successful which carnal and integer objects interact (Table 1). The gaming manufacture has led the mode with platforms specified arsenic Second Life, Minecraft and Fortnite. But the metaverse could besides adhd a caller magnitude to aesculapian education.

Table 1 Key presumption successful the metaverse

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