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Can VR treat fears and phobias?

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The Fear of Heights Experience

In Barcelona, a vr emulation is being used in prisons to make men convicted of domestic violence aware of what it feels like to be their victims. Virtual embodiment works by giving these men the experience of abuse in the first person from the perspective of someone who actually experiences an event in person. Many of the prisoners lack empathy for their victims. The experience vr creates of seeing things from some one else's point of view can be therapeutic, even for serious problems. And speaking of problems, i asked sam whether the correct name for the fear of heights was electer phobia, eracnophobia or acrophoby. Alectorophobia is the fear of chickens.

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