Metaverse environments offer excellent multidisciplinary collaborative possibilities. Many of these are based around entertainment (gaming, music, socialising) but increasingly work-based environments such as those provided by NVidia Omniverse, and Spatial.io will become more commonplace in the same way as Microsoft Teams and Zoom have for collaboration and communication. There are several open-source (e.g., Vircadia) and commercial (Rec-Room, AltSpace, and Horizon Worlds) solutions. Metaverse environments offer potential advantages when compared to traditional 2D screen-based platforms for visualization in two key areas ( Matthews 2018 Sommer et al., 2018 Hillmann 2021):ġ) Enhanced remote sharing and collaborative opportunities offering benefits above traditional CAVE systems including affordability and interactivity ( Cordeil et al., 2017).Ģ) Infinite space to visualize data where users show better recall ( Krokos et al., 2019) and comprehension of scale ( Lee et al., 2021). This article will look at how visualization can leverage the Metaverse in bioinformatics research, the pros and cons of this technology, and what the future may hold.
More recently large corporations such as Microsoft and Meta have announced they are developing the Metaverse as a new paradigm to interact with the digital world. Previously seen as mainly for gaming, commercial and research institutions are investigating XR solutions to solve real world problems from training, simulation, mental health, data analysis, and studying disease progression. 3Lund Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, SwedenĬOVID-19 forced humanity to think about new ways of working globally without physically being present with other people, and eXtended Reality (XR) systems (defined as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality) offer a potentially elegant solution.2Division of Molecular Hematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.1Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Group, MRC Weatherall Institute of Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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