The Road to Recovery: Re-energising people 65+ in care homes, deconditioned through Covid isolation, using the medium of virtual reality and social walks.

该项目为养老院65岁以上的老年人提供社交VR（虚拟现实）步行，他们的选择和机会往往有限。65岁以上的人在冬季会减少锻炼和社交，导致肌肉力量和健康状况不佳的感觉。2019冠状病毒病的隔离和屏蔽加剧了这些影响，从去年冬天一直延续到2020年夏季和冬季。护理院和社会服务机构的护理员太少，需求太大。在当前的VR硬件条件下，社交VR行走是不可能的，因为它仅限于房间规模和/或参与式沉浸。为了在VR中实现安全、无限制的运动，Wizdish已经为一款VR跑步机（ROVR）申请了专利，该跑步机经过临床评估，使用与步行相似的力度和肌肉群。这台跑步机与无线VR头显组成了一个“ROVR系统”。社交虚拟现实漫步将由熟悉和不熟悉的真实场所创建，如博物馆、艺术画廊和当地旅游目的地。康沃尔和牛津郡的护理院将安装ROVR系统，允许当地夫妇在住宅内一起探索地方。在项目期间，这些养老院将被连接起来，使地理位置遥远的群体能够一起探索和社交。社交VR散步为有共同兴趣的人们提供了机会和选择，让他们可以见面、社交和探索作为VR模型捕获的真实场所，提供共享体验和联系感的记忆。护理院试点小组将验证Wizdish ROVR VR跑步机与无线VR耳机和社交VR内容配对是一个完整的自我激励的社交和体育锻炼解决方案。该项目最初将重点关注那些能够独立站立或借助一根棍子站立的人。该项目旨在克服技术障碍，发现自我激励和自我驱动的社交VR行走的心理驱动因素。该项目将测量身体和心理健康的临床变化以及自我报告的幸福感和连通性。独立的临床评估和评价将由牛津大学和普利茅斯大学的EPIC项目进行。该项目为Wizdish提供试点数据，以获得机构资金支持，将ROVR系统作为低成本的月度订阅模式（类似于移动电话）。

This project provides social VR (Virtual Reality) walks for people 65+ in Care Homes whose choices and opportunities are often limited. The winter months for people 65+ leads to deconditioning in muscle strength and feelings of poor wellbeing through decreased exercise and social contact. These effects have been exacerbated by COVID19 isolation and shielding, extending last winter through summer and winter 2020\. Care Home and Social Service carers are too few and the need too large.There is no possibility of social VR walks with current VR hardware which is limited to room-scale and / or attended immersion. To allow safe, unlimited movement in VR, Wizdish has patented a VR treadmill (the ROVR) clinically assessed to use similar effort and muscle groups to walking. This treadmill teamed with a wireless VR headset comprises a 'ROVR System'. Social VR walks will be created of real-places, familiar and unfamiliar such as museums, art galleries and local tourist destinations. Care Homes, in Cornwall and Oxfordshire will have ROVR Systems installed allowing local pairs within a residence to explore places together. During the project these Care Homes will be linked, enabling geographically distanced groups to explore and socialise together.Social VR walks provide opportunity and choice for people with shared interests to meet, socialise and explore real-places captured as VR models, providing memories of shared experiences and feelings of connectedness. Care Home pilot groups will verify Wizdish ROVR VR treadmills paired with wireless VR headsets and social VR content is a complete self-motivated social and physical exercise solution.The project will initially focus on people able to stand unaided or with a stick. The project seeks to overcome technology barriers and discover psychological drivers for self-motivated and self-actuated social VR walks.This project will measure clinical changes in physical and mental health and self-reported wellbeing and connectedness. Independent clinical assessments and evaluation will be carried out by the University of Oxford and the EPIC Project at the University of Plymouth. The project provides pilot data to gain institutional funding support for Wizdish to offer ROVR Systems as a low cost monthly subscription model (akin mobile phones).