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

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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.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

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” The Key USA, Iraq | 2019 | 15 Min | Creator: Celine Tricart. “This critically acclaimed and haptically enhanced virtual reality experience transforms you into a majestic rainforest tree. It features the music of Gold Panda.” ” Tree USA | 2017 | 9 Min | Creator: Milica Zec, Winslow Porter.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Using your nose in VR might sound slightly unnecessary, superfluous even – an optional extra once visuals, audio and haptics have been perfected. Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses.