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A Review of Mixed Reality in Health Care

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Mixed reality (MR) give users a virtual three-dimensional representation of real objects embedded into the physical surroundings. Microsoft HoloLens and Google Glass are examples of MR devices that demonstrate the most prominent emerging technologies recently. This study presents a review of MR in healthcare. Literature related to the use of MR in healthcare were collected from the top A∗ and A journals in e-health management-focused and e-health clinical-focused. We found that majority of the research used VR and very few used MR in healthcare-related studies. While research in the space of MR in healthcare is nascent or relatively immature, there is clear evidence that further research is warranted.

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  1. University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia

    Blooma John

  2. Epworth HealthCare, Richmond, VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  3. Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

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  1. Epworth HealthCare, Richmond, VIC, Australia, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  2. Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Freimut Bodendorf

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John, B., Wickramasinghe, N. (2020). A Review of Mixed Reality in Health Care. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Bodendorf, F. (eds) Delivering Superior Health and Wellness Management with IoT and Analytics. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17347-0_18

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