Tag: virtual-reality
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Virtual reality ‘heroin cave’ aimed at helping addicts kick habit
By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) – Addicts in a new study at the University of Houston will strap on virtual reality headsets and navigate a “heroin cave” to help them try and kick their addictions. The heroin environments, a house party where the drug is snorted and one where it is injected, took nearly a…
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Global group to assess human impact on nature over three years
A global scientific group on Sunday launched a three-year assessment of mankind's impact on nature to help protect plants and animals from threats ranging from pollution to climate change. The study, due in 2019, would examine biodiverstiy, from bacteria to blue whales, and “ecosystem services”, which range from the value of coral reefs as nurseries…
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Patient wears 3-D glasses during brain surgery
In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief surgeon told AFP Tuesday. “In creating a completely artificial world for the patient, we could map certain zones and connections of his brain related to functions that we could not,…