COVID-19 Impact on Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare Industry
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges before the healthcare industry. While the healthcare industries across countries are focusing on combating this particular pandemic, other areas of care are suffering. As a result, the industry is looking for technological solutions that will aid in enhancing efficiency to provide appropriate care to patients within various restrictions. As a result, COVID-19 has positively impacted the applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in the healthcare market.

Owing to several technological developments, augmented reality and virtual reality are gaining importance in the healthcare sector despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although both technologies have diverse differences and applications, they are anticipated to help the healthcare industry to improve. The below table demonstrates the differences between AR & VR:

Table 1: Difference between Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR):
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