This article details how an application named Bravemind can assist veterans with virtual exposure therapy.

Bravemind, using proprietary hardware creates trauma relevant scenarios to help patients confront and process difficult memories in a safe and supportive environment, this is called Safe exposure (Waldrop, M). Recently, Bravemind has been ported to the HTC Vive and Oculus rift saving thousands of dollars usually used to by the original headset.(Waldrop, M).

Waldrop, M. M. (2017). News Feature: Virtual reality therapy set for a real renaissance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(39), 10295–10299. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715133114

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