VR is Helping Veterans Cope with Battlefield Trauma

Virtual reality is a lot more than a cool way to enhance your video game fun. USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies has developed VR exposure therapy to treat veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress. The Institute says its exposure therapy approach is now...

Make My Machine Feel

Technology is apparently speed ramping our humanity. VR has received the accolade as the ultimate empathy machine. It’s been a game changer in the field of healthcare and medicine, providing controlled, simulated settings. In the process, helping trauma victims,...

Could Virtual, Augmented Reality Augment Medicine?

Augmented reality superimposes digital information on top of a natural sensual experience; the now terminated Google Glass was an early application. Virtual reality creates an immersive simulated environment in which, for example, turning one’s head around...

New Realities Are Upon Us

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, about 20 percent of the 2.7 million veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom remain psychologically scarred from their service in theater. As far back as 2003, Albert “Skip” Rizzo developed an VR program...