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One of the documented side effects of virtual reality is a mental disease called derealization , which makes people feel like real life isn't real, and causes
by ippisl 13y ago
One of the documented side effects of virtual reality is a mental disease called derealization , which makes people feel like real life isn't real, and causes a lot of anxiety.
Also there's the fact that military training conditions people to kill automatically without thinking and the fact that virtual reality has a proven ability to decondition people with PTSD or fear of spiders(with real results in real life), which is basically the same psychological process of military conditioning.
All this raises interesting questions about "the line" between real and virtual , that at least be tested before wide scale deployment of VR.
- pkroll 13y agoWhere is that documented? 'cause that's a pretty big claim.
- ippisl 13y agoDerelealization: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712501 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712501 Efficacy of VR exposure therapy in anxiety disorders , in cluding PTSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_therapy#Efficacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_therapy#Efficac... Exposure therapy probably works via habituation or conditioning. http://www.nelsonbinggeli.net/NB/CBT-Exposure.html http://www.nelsonbinggeli.net/NB/CBT-Exposure.html The knowledge on how military training works is found on dave grossmans's book : "on killing".