Brilliant but Bounded: The Limitations and Future Insights of Virtual Reality Applications in Education, Healthcare, and Workplace

Zhizhan Wang

2025

Abstract

With recent technological innovations, Virtual Reality (VR) has transformed from a niche entertainment technology into a pivotal tool, with applications spanning across a wide range of industries, establishing itself as an effective and productive tool, particularly across healthcare, education, and the workplace. This review first examines a series of studies conducted based on the use of VR in enhancing higher education classrooms, promoting empathy learning among English language learners, enabling rare clinical training, treating phantom pain, facilitating effective collaborations, and supporting professional development, with a focus on exploring and recognizing VR’s strengths, limitations, and future potential in practical applications. Subsequently, the discussion proceeds to critically analyze the methodological cases, and concludes with a systematic review of the practical limitations and future insights of VR. Through this review, immersive technologies have indicated clear advantages, including safe simulation, enhanced empathy, increased engagement, facilitated independence, less stress, and cost-effectiveness. However, common challenges persist, including accessibility issues, technological limitations, user-friendly designs, and social fragmentation. By comparing these studies, this review suggests pathways for the sustainable and equitable integration of VR, concluding with key questions for future research and implementation that emphasize aligning technological innovation with industrial needs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wang Z. (2025). Brilliant but Bounded: The Limitations and Future Insights of Virtual Reality Applications in Education, Healthcare, and Workplace. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management, Information Technology and Intelligence - Volume 1: EMITI; ISBN 978-989-758-792-4, SciTePress, pages 540-544. DOI: 10.5220/0014362500004718

in Bibtex Style

@conference{emiti25,
author={Zhizhan Wang},
title={Brilliant but Bounded: The Limitations and Future Insights of Virtual Reality Applications in Education, Healthcare, and Workplace},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management, Information Technology and Intelligence - Volume 1: EMITI},
year={2025},
pages={540-544},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014362500004718},
isbn={978-989-758-792-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management, Information Technology and Intelligence - Volume 1: EMITI
TI - Brilliant but Bounded: The Limitations and Future Insights of Virtual Reality Applications in Education, Healthcare, and Workplace
SN - 978-989-758-792-4
AU - Wang Z.
PY - 2025
SP - 540
EP - 544
DO - 10.5220/0014362500004718
PB - SciTePress