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Extended-personal realities? The first pilot study of the EXPERIENCE project has begun with the goal to enhance diagnosis of mental health disorders via virtual reality
Young person wearing virtual reality goggles Halfpoint / stock.adobe.com The EXPERIENCE project The EXPERIENCE project aims to enable the creation and sharing of extended-personal realities. Extended-personal realities are custom made virtual environments generated from personal neurophysiological data and equipped with psychological, cognitive, and behavioral information. The extended-personal reality of a user (provider) can be shared…
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Black holes in virtual reality
This is a cross-post from the SpringerOpen blog. In our most recent paper in Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology we present our latest Virtual Reality visualization. The simulation is based on the black hole in the center of our own Galaxy; Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The mass of it; four million times more massive than our…
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Virtual reality for stroke: is gaming effective for recovery?
©SpecsLab2019 Every two seconds someone suffers a stroke. Around 55 to 75% of stroke survivors will display impairments and will need long-term care and rehabilitation. These staggering numbers highlight a pressing need to resolve the stroke crisis which accounts for a total estimated annual cost of €45 billion. Current rehabilitation treatments for stroke either do…