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

Road to VR

VR is used to incrementally trigger an embodied sensory experience in PTSD patients by placing soldiers within the virtual sights, sounds, feelings, and smells of common combat scenarios in Iraq and Afghanistan. More: Here’s a 20-minute VICE Canada Story on Virtual Reality PTSD Exposure Therapy. Support Voices of VR.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

VRScout

From VICE Media comes Cut-Off, an immersive 360° VR documentary experience that places the viewer in the middle of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s historic visit to Shoal Lake 40, a First Nation in Canada without access to clean water. Viewers also visit Cross Lake, where a state of emergency was declared after a wave of youth suicides.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable VR

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere -- maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did -- with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. And then I said to one kid, "Oh, I'm from Canada. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. Well, I don't know.