Virtual reality is changing how we see the world – and revolutionising how we treat pain, investigate psychology and other scientific endeavours.
Surgeons and their patients are finding that virtual reality can relieve the pain and stress of operations – and it’s safer and cheaper than sedatives. Mosaic travels with Jo Marchant to a Mexican mountaintop village to visit a clinic with a difference.
Here we take a quick tour through the virtual worlds currently in use:
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