Metaverse for Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare: An Overview of Potential Use Cases Based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT Technologies, Its Challenges, and Future Directions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- We show the potential of the metaverse in supporting the digital anti-aging process and increasing the life expectancy of patients.
- We introduce a technological overview of healthcare services for the metaverse, with emphasis on the eventual opportunities.
- We highlight the possible challenges of the integration of healthcare services in the metaverse enviroment.
2. Related Work
3. Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare in the Metaverse
3.1. Chronic Disease Management in the Metaverse
- Holographic construction.
- Holographic simulation.
- Fusion of virtual and real.
- Virtual–real linkage.
3.2. Entertainment in the Metaverse as an Anti-Aging Strategy
3.3. Well-Being and Fitness for Anti-Aging Using the Metaverse
3.4. Digital Skin Management as a Digital Anti-Aging Strategy
3.5. Mental Health and the Metaverse
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Eating disorders
- Anxiety, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder
- Autism
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Stress and pain prescription
- Psychosis, delusions, and schizophrenia
3.6. Remote Assistance for Critical Patients within the Metaverse
4. Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare-Supporting Technologies in the Metaverse
4.1. Artificial Intelligence
4.2. Blockchain
4.3. Internet of Things
4.4. Edge/Cloud Computing
4.5. 5G/6G Network
4.6. Immersive Technology
4.7. Digital Twins
4.8. Human–Computer Interaction
4.9. Quantum Computing
4.10. Three-Dimensional Reconstruction
5. Metaverse Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare Challenges
5.1. Privacy and Security Concerns
5.2. Information Security Concerns
5.3. Standardization and Interoperability
5.4. Increasing the Metaverse’s Userbase
5.5. Limited Internet Access, Especially in Rural Areas
5.6. Lack of Knowledge of the Metaverse Domain in Technology
5.7. Expensive Equipment
5.8. Difficulties in Law and Regulation
6. Metaverse Anti-Aging and Healthcare Future Directions
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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SL | Description of Study | Technologies | Use Case | Reference |
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1 | User-customized smart aging system by combining AI and the metaverse | IoT, AI, and VR | Smart aging system | [19] |
2 | Entertainment in the metaverse as an anti-aging strategy | AR | Virtual coaching for anti-aging treatment | [20] |
3 | Social networks and communities as an anti-aging strategy | Metaverse social applications | Share information and resources related to anti-aging treatments | [21] |
4 | Skincare effectiveness and consideration | AI medical analysis | Skincare treatment | [22] |
5 | Fitness for anti-aging using the metaverse | VR, AR, MR, XR | Fitness rehabilitation | [23] |
6 | Uses of telemedicine within the metaverse for anti-aging treatment | Explainable AI, MR | Skin treatment | [24] |
7 | Mental health in the metaverse | Virtual reality | Mental health | [25] |
8 | The metaverse in cancer care | VR, AR | Cancer care | [26] |
9 | Therapeutic effects of metaverse rehabilitation | Avatar AR, VR | Therapeutic Rehabilitation | [27] |
10 | Token economies and chronic disease | BC | Chronic disease | [28] |
SN | Task | AI | IoT | BC | Reference |
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1 | Acute exacerbation of COPD detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | [30] |
2 | Diabetes monitoirng assited by BC and IoT | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | [31] |
3 | Validation of wearable sensors for gait monitoring in patients | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | [32] |
4 | Retinal photograph analysis and blockchain platform to facilitate AI medical research | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | [33] |
5 | Remote patient monitoring for cardiovascular diseases | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | [34] |
6 | Quality of life framework for cancer patients | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | [35] |
7 | Heart rate monitoring older people | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | [36] |
8 | Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, monitoring, and management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | [37] |
9 | Stroke disease prediction system | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | [38] |
10 | Cancer care in India | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | [39] |
Features and Needs | 5G and 6G Ecosystem Potential Solutions |
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Global access to every multiverse that makes the metaverse |
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Lightweight and accessible XR devices for the metaverse experience |
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Edge-Cloud and Cloud capabilities |
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Consistent interfaces |
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Fast accesible packages for developers |
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Mozumder, M.A.I.; Armand, T.P.T.; Imtiyaj Uddin, S.M.; Athar, A.; Sumon, R.I.; Hussain, A.; Kim, H.-C. Metaverse for Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare: An Overview of Potential Use Cases Based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT Technologies, Its Challenges, and Future Directions. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 5127. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13085127
Mozumder MAI, Armand TPT, Imtiyaj Uddin SM, Athar A, Sumon RI, Hussain A, Kim H-C. Metaverse for Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare: An Overview of Potential Use Cases Based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT Technologies, Its Challenges, and Future Directions. Applied Sciences. 2023; 13(8):5127. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13085127
Chicago/Turabian StyleMozumder, Md Ariful Islam, Tagne Poupi Theodore Armand, Shah Muhammad Imtiyaj Uddin, Ali Athar, Rashedul Islam Sumon, Ali Hussain, and Hee-Cheol Kim. 2023. "Metaverse for Digital Anti-Aging Healthcare: An Overview of Potential Use Cases Based on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT Technologies, Its Challenges, and Future Directions" Applied Sciences 13, no. 8: 5127. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13085127