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So through the exercises they retrain the brain functions they lost and relearn them?

Turning on no-fail and enabling one-handed mode inside Beat Sabre has been rather well received among users in our experience. You still get to play and have fun - without having the experience ruined by things they cannot interact with.

I so want to try out your software now lol I'd happily play a beat saber style game sitting down 🤣

We've seen patients with only one-armed mobility play Beat Sabre, and all our mini games (minus one) is made to be played both standing, sitting and with just one arm/side.

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Point and click games can be a great tool for spacial awareness and memory perhaps? I don't know of any specific research on this particular form - but it sounds interesting.

I touched a bit on this earlier but:

Patients reports enjoying training through games. They experience it as something fun rather than "rehabilitation" - making them engage more with training, which in turn can increase the recovery rate. You can also bring games with you home.

Our software mimics real life movements and gives incentives for doing movement patterns that we provoke through gameplay. Especially more unnatural movements that are beneficial to general mobility/movement.

There are games that focuses on these topics as well, our didn't but - given funding and time it would be an interesting venue to explore. Especially PTSD which some military forces already do VR experiments with.

I think that stories and narrative experiences can be powerful tools for people to identify with and process experiences with.

Ooh nice! What about for the impaired? I feel one-handed click and move type games might be highly beneficial too

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Commercially available for general brain trauma rehabilitation - assuming that the patient has the abilities to play it (with or without assists like one handed, no fail etc) I think that Beat Sabre is a genius piece of software. Great hand/eye coordination, balance and reaction speed training.

Software like the one we made is a bit more specialized and tries to do more specific things and movements - great for institutional use, especially due to special accessibility features.

Could you make games that help with depression, PTSD and other things going wrong with the brain?

What video game do you think is the most therapeutic?

How do the VR simulations and exercises aid with recovering from brain trauma?

Exciting question - feel free to poke about more topics :)

Thanks for being here!

It's an interesting question. Our software that we developed in particular doesn't focus on psychological trauma - However:

There are software projects that focus on PTSD and crisis handling in combination with traditional therapy, there are some Army projects doing this.

Other venues of VR usage are phobia through exposure therapy. Also in combination with qualified personnel.

From a personal standpoint - I could see use cases that involves preparing and easing in people that are transitioning to self-living after being in institutions. (Digital twins of soon-to-be-homes and training daily tasks for example).

Well, the future 50 years from now is just as uncertain as it was 50 years in the past when no one could have predicted technology.

I appreciate your answer as a professional on this topic. Thank you

Is this technology bringing good for physical brain trauma only or a psychological trauma too?

I am afraid I don't consider myself qualified enough to offer advice on this.

However, from what I understand - memory research is a constant field of development that has continues progression as we understand more and more about our brains.

I hope that in time you will be able to recover some lost memory - and even if not - get the chance to create new and wonderful ones.

Hah,
I think my generation (born in the 80s) grew up with all these tech horror movies - Terminator and Skynet, Matrix and so on. We might be a bit environmentally challenged :>

I think that in order to sell a virtual reality, it has to be better than our own. And I don't know how the future will be in 50 years - it might be amazing, but also not so amazing.

We know that loneliness is on the rise - perhaps 8 hours of relaxing on a virtual beach that you perceive to be completely real isn't the worst idea after logging of your work computer then :) Or who knows - bring you entire family to Disney World after dinner!

interesting how everyone jumps to a dystopian conclusion in these sorts of situations. I imagine there would be a time when people will be skeptical of this new tech that some huge monopoly of a company is offering for obvious personal gains but depending on marketing and government action and regulations they will start to be widely accepted like the internet when it first came online. This would result in a situation where sort of like today, big companies will get us to doomscroll their services and keep us glued to their products so we evolve a natural dependency on them and slowly humanity dissolves into the puddle of stupidity all because of corporate greed :(

I am reluctant to even predict 5-10 years into the future at this point - but if I had a wild and somewhat dystopian guess, it would be something along the lines of this:

(Remember, 50 years is a LONG time.)

Full body immersion with a neural interface. Hopefully not hackable.This may be the way we'll make user friction low enough for people to live in virtual worlds - as dystopian as that may be.

Current VR tech and "immersive" experiences has a too steep barrier of entry for mainstream B2C use - for people to adapt such a tech it needs to be almost as simple as using a remote control. Neural interfaces would fix that.

With our VR Games / Software we pull the users out of hospitals and onto a tropical resort - we mimic movement and exercises that are beneficial to patients through fun activities. Our patients report that it's exciting, and that they forget that they are in a hospital - every one of our 25 patients reported it didn't feel like rehabilitation.

In short - they had fun. :)

Hour to Hour - initial VR research shows the same results as normal training, however we see a much lower drop-off rate from rehabilitation using games vs traditional methods. (Upwards 200% better engagement in some cases).

There is still a lot of research to be done and peer reviewed in general on VR - but it is a promising avenue - and the patients love it.

VR also has a painkilling effect, most likely related to the immersion that it brings. "Most" people forget their location awareness after 30-60 seconds.

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