Tag: medical
Medecine meets VR – Interview of Dr. Rizzo
The “Medecine meets VR” conference, 17th edition, will be held in California on Januray 19-22. Their blog publishes an interview of Dr Albert “Skip” Rizzo who gave a keynote at Laval Virtual 2008. Here are some bits ranging…
Read More »VR Medical training should be mandatory
Here’s an interesting article from Nature about the advantages on using VR for surgery training, but also for procedures standardisation : Virtual surgery could soon be a realityVirtual reality (VR) simulators should be used to teach doctors new…
Read More »Designing VR Exposure Therapy Simulations for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Here’s an article on Serious Game Source by Ari Hollander from Imprint talking about how VR can help therapists : “Virtual reality (VR) provides a tool that can allow therapists to gradually intensify a simulation of the traumatic…
Read More »Virtual Therapy to quit smoking
This article (and video) at TechEBlog talks about a virtual therapy where patients are immersed in a virtual world filled with ‘smoking triggers’ to help them fight the will to light a cigarette. [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4067577751307892734[/googlevideo]
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