February 17, 2015 at 21:23Oculus Rift allows you to look at the world through the eyes of a person with schizophrenia
Viscira is working on the Mindscape project: the user uses the Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses to see the world through the eyes of a person with positive symptoms of schizophrenia. The goal of the project is not the diagnosis or treatment of the disease, but the help in understanding it, which is needed by the patient’s family members, clinic staff, and medical students.
Schizophrenia- a mental disorder or a group of disorders associated with the breakdown of thinking processes and emotional reactions. Symptoms of schizophrenia are usually divided into positive, or productive, and negative, that is, deficient. Productive include nonsense, auditory hallucinations and thinking disorders. These symptoms are simulated by Mindscape. Negative ones include a decrease in the brightness of emotions, an inability to enjoy and loss of motivation - while there is no technical possibility to simulate them in virtual reality.
Journalist selena larson describedyour experience using Mindscape. The software took her to the elevator, where she went up to the tenth floor in company with several strangers. As the elevator moved, Selena began to hear whispers and voices, and people around her began to look at her with anger and disappointment. Selena noted that she knew perfectly well that this was a simulation, but she was so similar to reality that she made her feel uncomfortable.
Unlike audio and video , showing the life of a person suffering from schizophrenia in the first person, virtual reality glasses can more fully reveal the symptoms and achieve greater realism.
A team of designers and developers worked with Viscira researchers to select a scenario that would reflect a person’s daily life with productive symptoms. The choice fell on a job interview, which is preceded by a not-so-pleasant trip in a filled elevator. Viscira employees starred in the video. Their voices were recorded for the sound component of the simulation, these were phrases like "You will fail the interview."
Viscira began working with virtual reality in 2011. The first development in this area was the simulation of age-related malignant degeneration: if the macula, part of the retina, is damaged, lines and objects are distorted, spots appear in the field of vision. EyeMac simulation allowed ophthalmologists to feel this disease on themselves.
Schizophrenia- a mental disorder or a group of disorders associated with the breakdown of thinking processes and emotional reactions. Symptoms of schizophrenia are usually divided into positive, or productive, and negative, that is, deficient. Productive include nonsense, auditory hallucinations and thinking disorders. These symptoms are simulated by Mindscape. Negative ones include a decrease in the brightness of emotions, an inability to enjoy and loss of motivation - while there is no technical possibility to simulate them in virtual reality.
Journalist selena larson describedyour experience using Mindscape. The software took her to the elevator, where she went up to the tenth floor in company with several strangers. As the elevator moved, Selena began to hear whispers and voices, and people around her began to look at her with anger and disappointment. Selena noted that she knew perfectly well that this was a simulation, but she was so similar to reality that she made her feel uncomfortable.
Unlike audio and video , showing the life of a person suffering from schizophrenia in the first person, virtual reality glasses can more fully reveal the symptoms and achieve greater realism.
A team of designers and developers worked with Viscira researchers to select a scenario that would reflect a person’s daily life with productive symptoms. The choice fell on a job interview, which is preceded by a not-so-pleasant trip in a filled elevator. Viscira employees starred in the video. Their voices were recorded for the sound component of the simulation, these were phrases like "You will fail the interview."
Viscira began working with virtual reality in 2011. The first development in this area was the simulation of age-related malignant degeneration: if the macula, part of the retina, is damaged, lines and objects are distorted, spots appear in the field of vision. EyeMac simulation allowed ophthalmologists to feel this disease on themselves.
