Virtual reality is a computer-generated environment that allows you to experience a different reality. A VR would fit around head and over your eyes and visually separates you from surrounding environment. Using a controller or other device, you can explore the environment or experience a story.
VR can help people with social anxiety
Virtual reality is getting a lot of attention these days. From being used in the construction industry to helping doctors and patients better understand medical conditions, virtual reality technology is everywhere and it’s only going to get more popular as the tech becomes cheaper and more widespread.
Virtual reality can do wonderful things, but there’s one aspect of VR that’s often overlooked: how this technology can help people with social anxiety. VR is already being used as a treatment for people with phobias, such as fear of heights or spiders. The idea behind this treatment is to gradually expose people to the thing they’re afraid of (in a virtual way), so they can get used to it and eventually become comfortable enough with it to confront it in real life.
There’s no reason why this same approach couldn’t work for anxiety-related disorders such as social anxiety disorder (SAD). From giving people the opportunity to practice social skills before an actual event, like a date or meeting new people at a party, to helping them overcome their fears of rejection or seeming boring by having them face those fears over and over again until they realize that nothing bad happens when they talk to other people.
Future of virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is the most immersive technology available to consumers today. By using a combination of computer hardware and software, a virtual-reality system creates the illusion that you are in a fictional environment a place that doesn’t exist in the real world.
Early VR headsets suffered from poor performance and high prices, as well as a lack of compelling software to use them the only games available, were simplistic things like tech demos and 360-degree videos. They have since expanded to include better-performing hardware and more powerful software with more complex gameplay options, although they still have a long way to go before they’re ready to be adopted by mainstream users.
In the past, VR was mostly used for expensive systems in hospitals, military training, and other niche applications. Today, however, VR has become more affordable for consumers. The Oculus Rift is a good example of a VR headset that provides an inexpensive entry point for consumers you can purchase it for $600 or less. The HTC Vive costs $800 and has more features than the Oculus Rift. These headsets rely on smartphones as their display systems and come with hand controllers that give you full control of your experience.
For now, VR hardware remains bulky and tethered to PCs, but companies such as Intel are working on stand-alone devices with all the necessary computing power built-in.
The future of VR seems bright. The technology is still new it’s limited by the amount of content available for it but the possibilities seem endless. We’ll see VR tech being used in classrooms to let students explore places far away from them; it will be used to create realistic simulations of surgery or even space travel.…
