The term “metaverse”, which we hear more and more these days, is still a bit esoteric to the general public. People often understand it as just a vague reference to a fantasy world beyond our reality.

But the metaverse doesn’t have to seem so science fiction. In fact, it has promising potential to improve health service delivery, according to a keynote address by Mona Flores, nvidia‘s Global Head of Medical AI, at MedCity’s Invest Digital Health conference in Dallas on Wednesday.

Flores defined the metaverse as an immersive network of connected virtual worlds, calling it the “3D evolution of the Internet”. At Nvidia, he helped build omniversethe company’s platform for building and running metaverse applications.

“[The metaverse]…