You'll need a lot of initiative. I contacted the general secretary of the largest interest group in Norway directly. Got the chance to do a 2min pitch and he liked it.

I was somewhat lucky that got his number from a tech lead at the company - he told me to go for it.

After that we approached the Dam Foundation for funding application and approached the largest specialist hospital in Norway. They liked our idea, and we developed the application together. It got declined the first time and we applied a second time in which it was accepted. :)

I don't think there is any set way to do this, but getting powerful players in on your idea early is very important.

I don't know the specifics. But I know that it's been used in treatment of addictions (probably as a distraction). Even some research on post traumatic injury to see how it can maintain synapse function. I do not know what the end result was- but it's very interesting to see games being used this way.

It's always hard to quantify without longer studies, but we had one patient in particular whom had suffered an extremely severe stroke - paralysis of left side (very limited hand movement), and reduced mobility on right side on top of some mental disabilities.

It was the kind of patient that you'd sit on eggshells to see how would react, expecting that they would gain nothing, be frustrated and quit.

They didn't. They loved it. Despite extreme challenges, including taping a controller to the left hand - they laughed so hard and had so much fun that I had tears of joy in my eyes. That kind of thing made all the hours we donated worth it.

The patients we had with the heaviest disabilities were the ones that came with the most positive feedback. I guess this goes to show how much a little bit of fun can mean for someone.

Masking sounds could be a potential avenue - but I don't know enough about tinnitus. We teamed up with a hospital to deal with the medical side of our project.

Zero Pop-ups, we mimic real life. Everything has a physical, touchable place in the world.

Imagine being stuck on an advert with "Last Christmas" on loop. That'd be my fear.

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Do you know how Tetris effects the human brain and what it does to change it through extensive play?

So this is a lot about coordination. Have you heard anything about brain fatigue treatment? Like CFS/ME and other conditions where you're limited to low intensity activities.

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Any chance you're looking for a remote hire? Lol I'm at the end of my Game Development & Design BS. This industry has been tough to get a foot in so far lol

Can you link the project pages and if there are any published research papers? I work in IT healthcare and specifically interest in physical and mental wellbeing. I haven't done brain rehab but I would be really interested in looking at what you've been doing.

Oh jesus I hope you don't have intrusive popups for those like many modern games

What did your verification and validation protocols look like for this kind of software?

Does Ez or anyone else know more about getting involved with helping develop this type of software? Thank you.

You don’t need to jump to brain-machine interfaces to get dystopia. We can get to ugly places with what we already have in high-end hardware.

Meta is intending to place itself as the leader in VR technology — it has by far the most capital, talent, and intellectual property invested in the domain, of all players in the industry. Meta is an advertisement company — it makes its income by selling targeted advertisements, and by knowing its audience eerily well. Meta will certainly want to (and already is starting to) include eye-tracking hardware in its headsets. We already know they quantify the time spent on individual posts while scrolling through timelines to measure interest and engagement — but eye tracking data is the ultimate measurement of attention. Imagine having advertising clients automatically bet in real-time for milliseconds of your gaze time. Imagine how disgustingly exploitative and overbearing an advertisement system that optimizes gaze heat maps would get. Meta absolutely wants this — and they want the monopoly on VR because this means complete dominance in the advertising word, if VR becomes a significant part of our lives in our future — which us Meta’s bet. They will want to enforce a closed ecosystem that strips us of our ability to watch unwatched. Their ability to sell our attention will be unmatched.

Your name sounds familiar, a Metroid fan by any chance?

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If you have ideas and desire for this kind of stuff but lack funding reach out to me and I'll see what I can do. PTSD specifically has better options for neural net collapse and reset but if you think theres positive things in a similar vein to work on.. reach out

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Yes, subreddits are a good example of an instance of Mastodon. But imagine if you could interact interact with all subreddits at once with the click of a button. That's Mastodon.

Yup! This is what I assumed, while I enjoy reading I don’t know if had to pick only one server that would be it. I had heard someone mention it acted like subreddits in a way so I suppose I wondered if you could be on multiple servers.

Mastodon is "a free and open source decentralized social network". Users join a specific Mastodon server, rather than a single website or application. In my case I built a Mastodon server (instance) that focuses on books, reading and discussions. Mastodon servers are connected as nodes in a network, and each server can administer its own rules, account privileges, and whether to share messages to and from other servers.

So as a user when you join, you can browse and interact with 'Local' posts related to books. Or you can switch (1 click) to 'Federated' to browse and interact with the entire Mastodon network and go back to 'Local' with another single click. The platform feels like Twitter but the big difference is, we all own it. And you, as a user, are free to go wherever you want including transferring your account (with all followers) to another server. Mastodon is fun and free to use.Does that help?

What kind of licences would I require if I was keen to use games / VR at a teaching university?