Augmented reality, virtual reality and new age technologies demand escalates amid COVID-19

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is having a significant impact on healthcare, education, economics and general human well-being. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have experienced a tremendous increase in demand as they play an important role in avoiding travel, social contacts and providing adequate audiovisual communication and virtual presence. AR/VR is helping in the fight of this pandemic through their deployment in various crucial areas such as telemedicine, online education and training, marketing and healthcare monitoring. AR/VR provides resolutions for the distribution of antibiotics to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This paper discusses the demand for AR and VR as well as other notable new technologies explored recently to support the fight against COVID-19. The same technologies are in high demand, in the form of 2D-3D visualization and tracking software, flow and dynamic wearable headsets, potentially responsible for displaying the geographic location mostly affected with COVID-19.