
#275 VR in Healthcare with Almira Osmanovic Thunström
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The Evolution of Virtual Reality in Healthcare
There is really some amazing work being done in healthcare when it comes to virtual reality. When Oculus came, it revolutionized the way we could implement these things in clinics and do research on them. There isn't a diagnosis now where VR hasn't been tested clinically, proper clinical trial. And if you look at sort of when we started publishing articles about virtual reality in psychiatry and in medicine It was in the 1960s already. So there was this around 2013, there was this exponential boom from maybe 400 articles to 12, 20, 30,000 articles being published each year about this subject in science.
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