The virtual twin, a double for better care

The concept of metaverse promises for the next few years a virtual universe parallel to the real world where millions of humans would connect to have fun, exchange, work, consume or live new experiences. Virtual worlds already exist in the video game, health or industrial sectors, prefiguring the possibilities of tomorrow. Welcome to the future.

A new treatment tested on a large scale on virtual patients, a surgeon who tirelessly repeats a complicated gesture until he has mastered it perfectly, a hospital entirely reconstructed in 3D on a computer… The digital twin is present in all areas of health, replicating the infinitely small, DNA, a microbe or a bacterium, as well as the very large, buildings, or the extremely complex, a heart or a brain.

The digital twin is the realistic counterpart of the metaverse, with a notable difference between these two concepts. Metaverses are more or less fanciful worlds…