Can VR help mental health? Panelists such as Dr. Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (lower right) in Los Angeles, game design consultant Noah Falstein (lower left), clinical psychologist Dr. Kelli Dunlap (upper right), and Susanna Pollack (the moderator and president of Games For Change).
Can VR help mental health? Panelists such as Dr. Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (lower right) in Los Angeles, game design consultant Noah Falstein (lower left), clinical psychologist Dr. Kelli Dunlap (upper right), and Susanna Pollack (the moderator and president of Games For Change).
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How XR can be a vital tool for improving mental health

The power of mixed reality (XR) goes beyond just immersive games. Doctors, psychologists, and researchers are quickly finding out that XR’s greatest impact could be in medicine, where it’s already helping thousands of patients heal from their psychological or physical afflictions.

“We know that XR’s strength is the [cap]ability to achieve psychological presence, so that you literally feel like you are in some [virtual] world, and that’s great for gaming and entertainment. … But it can also be used tremendously to improve human health, to put the mind into fantastical worlds during its most vulnerable moments,” said Dr. Brennan Spiegel, the director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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