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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Having served with the US military in Iraq, Kenya and Djibouti, one of his key research interests is getting former soldiers to don VR headsets so they can face up to, and overcome, their traumatic memories. So getting out the car the first thing we would smell was rose. That has stuck with me until today.”.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

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Research regarding VR simulations to treat specific phobias was around as early as the nineties, but the technology simply wasn’t advanced enough for such treatment to be feasible. Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies.

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