Effective Extended Reality: A Mixed-Reality Simulation Demonstration with Digitized and Holographic Tools and Intelligent Avatars

How can we design engaging and effective medical education both online and onsite? Extended reality (XR) is a term referring to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables. It includes representative forms such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), or mixed reality (MR), and the areas interpolated among them. MR is a domain of particular interest today. It takes place not only in the physical world or in the virtual world, but is a mix of the real and the virtual. Metaverses can be enabled by MR wearable augments. Glasses-free MR is another very interesting dimension: e-REAL®, as a MR environment for hybrid simulation and medical education in general, can be a stand-alone solution or even networked between multiple places through a link to a special videoconferencing system. Digital humans and human-sized holograms are part of the e-REAL scenarios, making this solution unique, rich, and diversified.