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Facebook Enables Profile Lock Safety Feature For Users In Ukraine

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The tool was previously released in 2021 for users in Afghanistan. Facebook has brought back its profile lock feature, this time for users located in Ukraine.

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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

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Ensuring history survives using modern day technology. In more recent years, companies like TARGO have begun using immersive technology to digitally capture our greatest landmarks, historical sites, and monuments and preserve them for future generations; a righteous crusade to immortalize the efforts of the human race.

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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

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Referred to as the Open Heritage project, the operation had CyArk utilize their advanced 3D laser-scanning technology to record critical data at important sites and render the information into a detailed VR recreation.

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Google Partners With CyArk to 3D Scan the World’s Historical Sites, Provide Open Access to Data

Road to VR

CyArk founder Ben Kacyra was inspired to preserve the world’s heritage sites digitally when the Taliban destroyed a number of 1,500 year-old Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2001.

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PTSD Exposure Therapy in VR: Importance of Storytelling & Emotional Presence in Healing Trauma

Road to VR

Skip Rizzo heads the Medical VR Research Group at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies , which has been exploring how to use VR for psychological treatments, cognitive assessment, motor rehabilitation therapy, as well as interactions with virtual humans.

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VR Documentary Explores The Horrors Of War From A Soldier’s Perspective

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Following the true story of Iraq veteran Scott England, Mind at War is an emotional, room-scale journey into Scott’s dark descent into PTSD as a result of his combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Top 5 VR Healthcare Solutions: How Is Virtual Reality Helping People?

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Similar to exposure therapy for curing phobias, VR is being used to ease Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, primarily suffered by military veterans upon returning from war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq. VR for Pain Relief.