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…

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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…

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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…

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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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