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 …
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Training programs have been created with the use of augmented reality technologies to help educators understand their students, providing better learning experiences. A team at the University of Malta tackled this challenge by creating a VR application which mimics the experience of an autistic child in a classroom utilizing audio/visual tricks to help teachers understand …
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This article exemplifies exposure therapy by confronting patients with their phobias and flowing a patient named Edwin. A patient stricken with fear in public places and constantly thinking people are going to attack him. Temming talks about his adjustment and success being in these scenarios(like the video above) and how he recovered. Edwin later went …
Virtual Reality, a therapeutic solution to modern problems and mental health