{"id":69553,"date":"2023-05-21T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T08:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=69553"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:24:31","slug":"vrhealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/vrhealth\/","title":{"rendered":"VRHEALTH : a virtual reality and IoT digital health start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <strong>VR\/AR Group<\/strong> is an extended reality firm that uses virtual reality and augmented reality to solve some of our client&#8217;s greatest challenges. <em>South Africa<\/em> spends R20 billion on treating substance abuse such as alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse, but a study conducted showed that there was a 3% recovery rate of patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is potential to use an immersive, virtual world through virtual reality exposure therapy and The VR\/AR Group, alongside research partners in the EU and Africa, has designed a VRET platform that can be compatible with Samsung Gear VR and would be used to support healthcare professionals. The VR\/AR Group is the first virtual reality digital health company based in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">VRHEALTH<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">South African partners, German partners, USA partners, a strong team of engineers, healthcare professionals and researchers. In addition, the founder has launched a startup before that made a turnover &gt; R1 million and 4 full-time employees in less than 18 months from R40000 seed funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no other existing virtual reality digital health company in Africa with a VRET platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We make money through licensing the online platform and corporate partnerships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">None of our competitors have addressed substance abuse contextualized to the contributing factors of specific high prevalence countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.thevrargroup.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VR\/AR Group is an extended reality firm that uses virtual reality and augmented reality to solve some of our client&#8217;s greatest challenges. South Africa spends R20 billion on treating substance abuse such as alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse, but a study conducted showed that there was a 3% recovery rate of patients&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1737],"tags":[1846,1845,1754],"class_list":["post-69553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-healthtech-en-2","tag-iot-en-2","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553\/revisions\/213117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}