A Personal Perspective In 2015, at the Serious Games for Health conference in Utrecht, I experienced therapeutic virtual reality for the first time, thanks …
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#SundayResearchDive: How Safe is XR for Children? A Practical Look at AMXRA’s 2025 Guidelines
👩⚕️ Virtual Reality (VR) is already being used in both clinical and educational contexts with young children, particularly for therapeutic distraction, …
VR-guided meditation helps hospital parents manage stress
Parenting in the hospital is stressful. Moms and dads naturally focus on their ill child, sometimes to the neglect of their own mental health. A Stanford …
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Virtual reality game using scents boosts cognitive function in older adults
As the global population ages, supporting older adults in maintaining their cognitive and memory functions has become a pressing concern. The United Nations …
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Temporary anxiety disrupts spatial learning and threat recognition
A brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person's ability to learn what is safe and what is not. The research recently published in NPJ …
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