Beyond games, Oculus virtual reality headset finds medical uses

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http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oig3UWLXiCjM10MPInEDXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-06-11T010341Z_1_LYNXMPEB5A01R_RTROPTP_2_AUTOSHOW-OCULUS.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/beyond-games-oculus-virtual-reality-headset-finds-medical-010341109--finance.html)By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To help treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, Jennifer Patterson turned to a gadget typically associated with video games: the virtual reality headset from Oculus, a company Facebook Inc bought for $2 billion last year. Patterson, an engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh, studied a software used on the prototype of the head-mounted display that creates virtual settings, such as a Middle Eastern-themed city or desert road, that soldiers would otherwise avoid, as a way to help them recover from their PTSD. While there are no estimates of the potential size of the market for virtual reality applications in the health care field, analysts say that success in this area would likely spur even broader adoption in a range of industries, such as education, fashion, media and telecommunications.



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