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Every Choice You Make Is Life Or Death In This Daydream Impact VR Experience

VRScout

Sadly, none of your choices lead to a truly positive outcome, an unfortunate reality for many civilians caught in the center of war. . Virtual reality transports viewers from the comfort of their homes to the horrors of the battlefield in a visceral and powerful way,” he adds.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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How do you think virtual reality will improve over the next few years? You’re probably hoping for better ways to see, hear and touch virtual worlds. 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.

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Bringing War Home

Tech Trends VR

Most of us are lucky enough not to have experienced urban conflict first-hand, but VR can give us a sense of what that looks – and feels – like for people on the ground who have to actually live that reality. Virtual Reality has been used many times to show the dreadful consequences of the Syrian conflict.

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

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Virtual reality is changing many industries around the world, and healthcare is one of the biggest adopters of VR encompassing surgery planning, phobia treatment, pain relief, robotic surgery, skills training, etc. The world’s first surgery streamed in virtual reality. Virtual reality helps treatment of phobias.

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

Road to VR

He’s been on the forefront of using virtual reality to treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder with virtual exposure therapy. More: Here’s a 20-minute VICE Canada Story on Virtual Reality PTSD Exposure Therapy. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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TRIBECA: ‘The Key’ Wins Tribeca’s Storyscape Award For Best Immersive Media

VRScout

Her film The Sun Ladies , is a powerful immersive documentary about the brave Yazidi women in Iraq, who escaped their ISIS captors to start a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies with the goal of fighting back and protecting the honor and dignity of their people, and fellow women.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

Still, it continues to merit saying, especially when we talk about t he research and clinical practice of virtual reality in cognitive and physical therapy treatment by leading psychologists and clinicians—which goes way beyond gaming; it has the potential to change the way we think about therapy altogether.

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