Dick Tracey didn’t have to visit a tall building to get over his fear of heights. He put on a virtual reality headset. Through VR, he rode an elevator to a high-rise atrium that looked so real he fell ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Virtual reality first made a buzz in the late '80s and early '90s, thanks to NASA, universities and gaming companies. VR has come a long way since then, including the ways in which it is ...

Liam Harte is hoping to help people overcome their phobias using virtual reality A university student has said he is "over the moon" seeing people test virtual reality (VR) software he hopes will one ...

Fear of spiders, open spaces, fear of heights? Virtual reality comes to the rescue as a tool to treat phobias, prove researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian ...

Virtual reality transports patients into immersive landscapes — a coral reef, a forest, even a simple puzzle world — as the real-life medical procedure unfolds. Evidence supports its use for needle ...

Research into the utility of virtual reality (VR) technology is rapidly evolving, including in the treatment of mental disorders. Already, studies have shown that exposure therapy (exposing people to ...

Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy (VRGET): What it is and how it works VRGET is a technology-based exposure therapy with important implications for the management of post-traumatic stress ...

For 45 years, Hayward resident Kathy Milton harbored a fear of heights after falling out of a tree when she was a child. She just lived with that fear until she recently lost a job. "The first ...

Exposure therapy is the most widely used method for phobias, helping people face fears gradually instead of avoiding them. This approach has revolutionized how mental health professionals tackle ...

For those who ordered early, the long-awaited Oculus Rift starts shipping today, the HTC Vive is expected to officially ship April 5, and Sony’s Playstation VR is slated to arrive in October. Virtual ...