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  2. Virtual reality - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality ( VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games ), education (such as medical, safety or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings).

  3. Extended reality - Wikipedia

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    Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term to refer to augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR). The technology is intended to combine or mirror the physical world with a " digital twin world" able to interact with it, [1] [2] giving users an immersive experience by being in a virtual or augmented environment.

  4. Virtual reality applications - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality is being applied to a wide range of medical areas, including medical education, training, surgery and diagnostic assistance for heath staff. For patients it is a good way of using it for their rehabilitation and training. [12] VR began to appear in rehabilitation in the 2000s.

  5. Virtual reality headset - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality headset. A virtual reality headset (or VR headset) is a head-mounted device that uses 3D near-eye displays and positional tracking to provide a virtual reality environment for the user. VR headsets are widely used with VR video games, but they are also used in other applications, including simulators and trainers.

  6. Virtual Reality: How Is It Used in Medicine? - WebMD

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    Therapeutic virtual reality (VR), the use of the immersive, computer-generated technology in medicine, is on the fast track to widespread use. In some hospitals and clinics, your doctor can ...

  7. Virtual Reality (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Virtual Real. Virtual Reality is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering research on virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality applications. [1] The editors-in-chief are Daniel Ballin (Ideas Crucible) and Robert D. Macredie ( Brunel University London ). [2]

  8. Artificial Reality - Wikipedia

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    Artificial Reality is a book series by Myron W. Krueger about interactive immersive environments (or virtual realities ), based on video recognition techniques, that put a user in full, unencumbered contact with the digital world. He started this work in the late 1960s and is considered to be a key figure in the early innovation of virtual reality.

  9. Can Virtual Reality Help Calm the Fear of Past Trauma? - WebMD

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    I really think the virtual reality's time has come in all kinds of use, but specifically, health care and mental health care for a number of bases in VA hospitals and private clinics have it.