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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

We can use a simulation to help do what’s called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. Alan: Where’s that going to be?

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

We can use a simulation to help do what's called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. Walter: It's going to be in Nashville.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

We can use a simulation to help do what’s called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. Alan: Where’s that going to be?