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

该项目为选择和机会往往有限的养老院65岁以上的人提供社交VR(虚拟现实)漫步。对于65岁以上的人来说，冬季的几个月会导致肌肉力量的退化，以及通过减少锻炼和社会接触而感觉不佳。这些影响由于COVID19的隔离和屏蔽而加剧，这种隔离和屏蔽将去年冬天延长到2020年夏季和冬季。关爱之家和社会服务照顾者太少，需求太大。目前的VR硬件仅限于房间大小和/或有人参与沉浸，因此不可能实现社交VR行走。为了在VR中实现安全、无限制的运动，Wizish已经为一种VR跑步机(ROVR)申请了专利，临床评估表明，这种跑步机使用的力量和肌肉群与行走相似。这款跑步机配有无线VR头戴式耳机，由一个“ROVR系统”组成。社交虚拟现实漫步将由博物馆、美术馆和当地旅游目的地等熟悉和陌生的真实场所创建。康沃尔和牛津郡的养老院将安装ROVR系统，允许同一住所内的当地伴侣一起探索地方。在该项目中，这些养老院将被连接在一起，使地理上相距遥远的群体能够一起探索和社交。社会虚拟现实行走为有共同兴趣的人提供机会和选择，让他们相遇、社交和探索被拍摄为虚拟现实模型的真实场所，提供共享经历的记忆和联系的感觉。关爱之家试点小组将验证Wizish ROVR VR跑步机与无线VR耳机和社交VR内容是一种完全自我激励的社交和体育锻炼解决方案。该项目最初将专注于能够独立或用棍子站立的人。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虚拟现实行走的心理驱动因素。该项目将衡量临床上身心健康以及自我报告的幸福感和连接性的变化。牛津大学和普利茅斯大学的EPIC项目将进行独立的临床评估和评估。该项目提供试点数据，为Wizish提供ROVR系统作为低成本的月度订阅模式(类似于手机)提供机构资金支持。

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).