September 22, 2000
Scholars in Medicine and Psychology Explore Uses of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, still viewed by many as an expensive high-tech toy, is gaining new respect from cognitive psychologists, clinicians, and therapists who say their experiments with the technology have produced surprising results.
The three-dimensional virtual worlds -- created with computer graphics, body-tracking devices, and head-mounted displays -- are now moving out of computer-science research labs and into hospitals. They are being used to treat pain in
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