June 22, 2004
VR Tool Re-Creates Hallucinations
Technology Review: VR Tool Re-Creates Hallucinations
Reality can seem different depending on who you are. Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia have written software designed to allow psychiatrists to gain an understanding of the reality of patient hallucinations. The hallucination simulation software is a three-dimensional environment something like the game Quake. The researchers interviewed a patient to get descriptions of a set of real-life hallucinations, then depicted them in the software.
The prototype software runs on a university virtual reality system that includes three projectors and a 9-meters-wide by and 2.5-meters-high screen curved to provide a 150-degree field of view.
Comments
sounds a bit like the dream simulator I pitched in 511 - will look into further... thanks!
Posted by: andrew at June 26, 2004 04:59 PM
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