A well-written story can be compelling, regardless of the form it takes. A good book or movie can help you escape, even if only for a couple of hours.
But can such a story help reshape your lived experience?
While this sounds like something out of the newest sci-fi movie, an identical concept is being used to “
study how virtual reality [VR] can treat real-life pain.”
Aside from its recreational use in video games and other forms of media, virtual reality can be a tool that might help address physical and mental stress. Individuals suffering from acute pain can even use VR to distract their minds. It can also help people suffering from trauma relive triggering situations in a supported way.
For Andrea Stevenson Won, director of the Virtual Embodiment Lab and a communications professor at
Cornell University, she and her team examined how physical and social interactions in mediated environments can help change an individual’s perception.
“I’m interested in the idea that you can transform your movements – see yourself doing something other than what you’re actually doing in real life – and this could help relieve chronic and acute pain,” she added.
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