Virtual Reality: A Real Treatment Option

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of Darkness Phobia

Virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy is a common treatment for phobia and the efficacy of this technique has proved. The darkness phobia is one of the most common disorders among the children. This is the first research about the darkness phobia and using VR to treat the patients. The VR system designed in this article is composed from two parts: Mechatronic devices and graphics unit. As a chi...

What's Real about Virtual Reality?

s usual with infant technologies, realizing the early dreams for virtual reality (VR) and harnessing it to real work has taken longer than the initial wild hype predicted. Now, finally, it's happening. In his great invited lecture in 1965, " The Ultimate Display , " Ivan Sutherland laid out a vision 1 (see the side-bar), which I paraphrase: Don't think of that thing as a screen, think of it as ...

Real-Time Virtual Audio Reality

A real-time virtual audio reality model has been created. The system includes model-based sound synthesizers, geometrical room acoustics modeling, binaural auralization for headphone or loudspeaker listening, and hiqh-quality animation. This paper discusses the following subsystems of the designed environment: The implementation of the audio processing softand hardware, and the design of a dedi...

REVERIE - Real and Virtual Come Together in a Virtual Reality

REVERIE is a general-purpose tele-immersion system that enables individuals to interact in a shared 3D synthesized environment. It is a meeting place for virtual characters representing real participants and receptive virtual agents (autonomous humanoids). Participants observe this virtual reality from the dynamically changing point of view of their virtual embodiment (an avatar or a replicant)...

Neurocognitive Treatment Using Virtual Reality