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To mark National Senior Citizen’s Day, here are some of the companies using the immersive power of virtual reality to make a difference. 
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Virtual reality headsets, aimed at reducing the pain of women in labour, are being trialled.
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The technology holds vast potential for insights into the workings of human brains
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This woman is one of the first people in the world to undergo virtual reality therapy while undergoing a medical procedure.
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The study highlights the potential of new technologies to help diagnose and monitor conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, which affects more than 525,000 people in the UK. In 2014, Professor John O’Keefe of UCL was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain’. Essentially, this means
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Virtual reality technology is edging its way into the medical world, but questions are now being raised about the ethics of exposing vulnerable patients to what can be a very powerful, immersive video experience.
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Sophisticated technology embedded in a virtual reality headset can be transformed into a medical device given the right software behind it.
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It’s more than a distraction, researchers say. It’s more like a brain hack that occupies the brain so fully that it has no room to process pain sensations at the same time.
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A virtual reality experience, called “Becoming Homeless,” is helping expand research on how this new immersive technology affects people’s level of empathy.
Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
January 8, 2019 6:56 AM
Can Virtual Reality encourage empathic behavior ? That's what two Stanford Researchers are claiming. |
