Vr stranger things meaning9/22/2023 ![]() Many of the prisoners lack empathy for their victims. One can go through different situations and have the experience from this totally novel perspective. ![]() In a virtual world we can be someone different and have a first-person embodied perspective from the point-of-view, for example, of a different person, different gender, different age. The project, called ‘virtual embodiment’, is led by neuroscientist, Mavi Sanchez-Vives, of Barcelona’s Institute for Biomedical Research. In Barcelona, a VR simulation is being used in prisons to make men convicted of domestic violence aware of what it feels like to be in the position of their victims. Oxford VR’s ‘Fear of Heights’ experience uses VR to put people into another world, but the next project we’ll hear about takes things even further - putting people into someone else’s body. Although your brain knows you have both feet on the ground, VR is so realistic that to complete the tasks you have to drop your defences, a phrase meaning to relax and trust people by lowering the psychological barriers you have built to protect yourself. This gives them confidence to go higher, knowing they can’t really get hurt.īut although it’s simulated, the experience is real enough to trick your mind into acting in its habitual way – the way it usually, typically works. The art of successful therapy, and what you can do really, really well in VR, is enable someone to drop those defences, and in VR a person is more able to drop them because they know there’s no real height there.Īlthough the VR experience seems real, the person using it knows it’s only a simulation – a pretend copy of the real thing. Listen as he explains how the VR experience works to BBC World Service programme, People Fixing the World.Įven though you’re consciously aware it’s a simulation, it doesn’t stop all your habitual reactions to heights happening, and that’s really important, and that’s why it’s got such a potential to be therapeutic. You start by taking an elevator to the top floor of tall building and move on harder challenges, like climbing a rope.ĭaniel Freeman is a professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University. In the safety of your own home, you put on a headset and are guided through a series of tasks moving you higher and higher off the ground. Now, if like me, you’re not very good with heights, you’ll be happy to know that a company called Oxford VR has designed a system to help with precisely that problem. We’ll find out the answer at the end of the programme. One of the phobias VR can help with is the fear of heights – but what is the proper name for this psychological disorder? Is the fear of heights called: We’ll hear more soon, but first I have a question for you, Sam. And it’s this intensity that inventors, scientists and therapists are using to help people overcome their problems. Putting on the headset makes you feel you’re really there, in whatever new world you’ve chosen. People who use VR often describe the experience as intense. ![]() And, of course, we’ll be learning some useful related vocabulary along the way. In this programme, we’ll be hearing about some of the ways VR is tackling serious problems like domestic violence, and helping people overcome phobias – the strong and irrational fear of something. VR allows you to put on a headset and escape into a completely different world. One of our favourite topics is VR or virtual reality, and the ways it’s shaping life in the future. Here at 6 Minute English, we love to chat about new technology. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript. Relax and trust people by lowering the psychological barriers you have built up to protect yourselfįrom the perspective of someone who actually experiences an event in personĬompletely new and original not like anything that has been experienced before Transcript Pretend copy of something that looks real but is not real Strong and irrational fear of something a type of anxiety disorder Listen to the programme to find out the answer. One of the phobias VR can help with is the fear of heights – but what is the proper name for this psychological disorder? Rob and Sam discuss the topic and teach you related vocabulary along the way. In this programme, we’ll be hearing about some of the ways VR is helping people overcome phobias and even tackling serious problems like domestic violence.
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