MEDitate | Devpost

Inspiration

Our Inspiration Stemmed from the idea of White Coat Hypertension. A phenomenon where patients exhibit a high blood pressure level above the normal range in a clinical setting due to being surrounded by doctors in white coats. It is believed that this syndrome could lead to long term effects on your cardiovascular health when compared to those who exhibit a normal blood pressure in all settings.

What it does

Our product tackles this issue and provides users with a relaxing environment to help stabilize their blood pressure. This is done through a virtual reality experience where the patient can enter a variety of calming atmospheres to help reduce their high blood pressure due to white coat syndrome. The temperature and moisture sensors we incorporated into our product help track the patient’s data and accordingly switch their VR environment to provide a more pleasant experience for them based on the information we receive.

How we built it

We built this using Unity and Arduino. The Unity platform helped provide us with a variety of tools to create interesting VR atmospheres. The Arduino component allowed us to use various sensors such as the temperature and moisture sensor to detect the patients symptoms at a particular moment.

Challenges we ran into

The integration of Arduino and Unity was a difficult process as we were unfamiliar with how to connect the 2 together. We also had difficulty acquiring our desired materials at the beginning of the event however we made the best of what we could find.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

All of us entered this makeathon not having much experience with sensors or Unity. As a team, we were able to grow and learn many new thing this weekend and build a product that we are extremely proud of.

What's next for MEDitate

Due to the time constraints of the event we were only able to incorporate minimal features. Our future outlook for product is to be able to incorporate a headset design to allow the user to wear headphones alongside the VR headset. This way we could control the sounds and manipulate them according the the sensor’s readings. We would eventually like to see this progress towards Telemedicine where the patient could be diagnosed and treated based on the collection of our data from telecommunication technology.