
The Infinite Retina
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Pain management is one piece of the healthcare puzzle in which Spatial Computing, particularly VR, is showing its most promising results. At the University of Washington, researchers working with Tom Furness and burn victims found that playing in a virtual snowfield was better at managing pain than morphine5. You can read their studies at http://www.vrpain.com.
This and other discoveries, which we call performing “brain tricks,” have deep implications for healthcare and show us a path to a new kind of healthcare that many can experience outside of a hospital, saving time and stress for patients, saving money for the healthcare system, and solving problems better than the drugs of old.
These new anti-pain brain tricks work through multiple methods―the two most understood are distraction and getting the brain to shut down the nerves delivering pain signals to the brain. Putting light into your eyes is a powerful thing, it turns...
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