Date: 06-15-2023
Date: 06-15-2023
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XR Health’s VR platform for mental health will treat astronauts on space station

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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XRHealth, a healthcare spatial computing platform, will send a VR headset and mental health apps into space to treat astronauts at the International Space Station.

XR Health and an HTC Vive VR headset will be used for the first time ever at the ISS. An HTC virtual reality headset will be sent to space to treat astronauts for mental health conditions during their next space mission targeted for launch on November 5.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.