The popularity of virtual reality has given young people a lot of new fun, games, learning, entertainment, etc. But most of them seem to be only young people. In recent years, the problem of aging society has become increasingly serious in various countries. It is also said that in our current society, the proportion of older people or about to enter the elderly is getting higher and higher. Naturally, the "elderly group" has been taken seriously by more and more people. Many people in the society stated that virtual reality technology not only applies to young people, they propose to bring VR into the lives of the elderly, and they need this more.
Physical and psychological aspects of the elderly more suitable and virtual reality technology
In fact, from a physical and psychological point of view, older people are more suitable for current VR devices than younger people. Older people tend to be more lonely, and VR devices are likely to satisfy their entertainment needs. And the vision of the elderly is gradually deteriorating, to see things not so carefully, but it is easier to accept rough, grainy electronic screens. And they often come in contact with early televisions with the same poor screen effects. This familiar and familiar feeling does not make them feel uncomfortable like a picky young man.
Virtual reality technology allows older people to reduce regret
Many times I can always hear such regrets: "When you are young, you have no money. Now you have money, but your children are also interested but your own bones are not." Then dreams can only be dreams. But now or in the future, technologies such as AR/VR/MR may give the elderly a bit of psychological comfort.
Because the elderly are often physically limited and inconvenient to move, using VR devices (especially those who need to connect) to sit in a fixed position reduces their physical burden and temporarily forgets their physical defects.
Examples
The Mercy Place Mont Clare nursing home in Perth, Western Australia, provides a new VR service for the elderly. An old sailor in the nursing home recalled his youthful sea life through VR glasses. He used to be a boat employee for many years and he recalled his life on a yacht again. This has always been taking care of him. Everyone has a very special meaning.
The other woman completed her dream of traveling to Africa. Virtual glasses help old people escape boring everyday life
Anita Ghose, manager of Mercy Health in Western Australia, said that VR glasses currently try to experience the memories of certain patients with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
The University of Tel Aviv in Israel is also developing a new vr product that attempts to combine ordinary treadmills with virtual reality to provide different scenarios to prevent the elderly from falling. In addition, Jeremy Bailenson, director of the Virtual Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at Stanford University, said in an interview that the combination of VR and AI will give people the opportunity to communicate with their dead relatives.
Older people will be quite worthy of the consumers
As mentioned before, in recent years, the overall population growth rate in most countries in the world has been steadily slightly lower, the proportion of elderly people over the age of 65 has increased year by year, and the aging of the population has increased. Under such a trend of social demographic structure, the elderly naturally become consumers competing for the major manufacturers. VR industry practitioners, especially content producers, do not start from this aspect, and find new ways to seek new consumer hotspots and consumer groups for the slow-moving VR market. It is not a good idea to sell VR as an old toy. At least stimulate developers to design more suitable applications for the elderly.