{"id":5277,"date":"2022-04-06T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/vr-role-play-therapy-helps-people-with-agoraphobia-finds-study\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:40:16","slug":"vr-role-play-therapy-helps-people-with-agoraphobia-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/vr-role-play-therapy-helps-people-with-agoraphobia-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"VR role-play therapy helps people with agoraphobia, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sessions with virtual-reality headset helped people overcome anxiety and complete everyday tasks<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sunny day on a city street as a green bus pulls up by the kerb. Onboard, a handful of passengers sit stony-faced as you step up to present your pass. But you cannot see your body \u2013 only a floating pair of blue hands.<\/p>\n<p>It might sound like a bizarre dream, but the scenario is part of a virtual reality (VR) system designed to help people with agoraphobia \u2013 those for whom certain environments, situations and interactions can cause intense fear and distress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/05\/vr-role-play-therapy-helps-people-with-agoraphobia-finds-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/50a67d5dad87ac7c0b75ba56e6a4874ea80dce1d\/62_0_1920_1152\/master\/1920.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=25b4f03658ed5990b9dfb51e16ee01f0\" title=\"VR role-play therapy helps people with agoraphobia, finds study\" \/>Sessions with virtual-reality headset helped people overcome anxiety and complete everyday tasks<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a sunny day on a city street as a green bus pulls up by the kerb. Onboard, a handful of passengers sit stony-faced as you step up to present your pass. But you cannot see your body \u2013 only a floating pair of blue hands.<br \/>\nIt might sound like a bizarre dream, but the scenario is part of a virtual reality (VR) system designed to help people with agoraphobia \u2013 those for whom certain environments, situations and interactions can cause intense fear and distress. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sessions with virtual-reality headset helped people overcome anxiety and complete everyday tasks It\u2019s a sunny day on a city street as a green bus pulls up by the kerb. Onboard, a handful of passengers sit stony-faced as you step up to present your pass. But you cannot see your body \u2013 only a floating pair &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/vr-role-play-therapy-helps-people-with-agoraphobia-finds-study\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VR role-play therapy helps people with agoraphobia, finds study<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}