The vizHOME is a virtual re-creation of a home, where the visitor uses "active stereo glasses" allowing one to see the home in 3-D. Housed in a small room in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the recreation is a very realistically cluttered living abode and can be a research tool to understand living habits, where people keep medications and how they remember to take them.
The vizHOME aims to better understand how to bridge the gap between good health and personal habits, reports the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.
Here are four key notes on this virtual reality research tool, according to the report:
1. The details of the virtual reality world are comprised of 1 billion pieces of data.
2. Gail Casper, director of the vizHOME, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel it is critical people take care of themselves at home and healthcare providers can set people up not to be "optimistically successful" at home because the providers do not know the patient's living habits.
3. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provided roughly $2.3 million to the project since its beginnings two years ago.
4. A special laser camera scanned 20 houses across the Midwest, with various interviews conducted on home healthcare and medication habits.
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