Educational research on emerging technologies, particularly virtual reality and augmented
reality, is expanding at the moment. The purpose of this contribution is to conduct a systematic
review to understand the impact of emerging technologies in the educational and social-health
fields. The PRISMA 2020 methodology was used to respond to the objective and research questions,
ensuring the fulfillment of the quality criteria in the elaboration of the systematic review. This
systematic review analyses the possible benefits that new technologies, specifically virtual reality and
augmented reality, can have on learning difficulties such as dyslexia and ADHD disorder, as well
as their inclusion in the social sphere. In this study, articles from both the health and educational
fields will be reviewed. The research focuses on highlighting the incipient benefits of these new
technologies for the aforementioned learning difficulties in the school and health fields. The main
conclusions drawn show that research on these emerging technologies is still scarce and incipient in
the educational field, with the main results found in the healthcare field.
