Sunday, February 17, 2008

VR Grocery Shopping

Today, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh will present a poster on the correlation they found between conventional clinical measures of balance and measures of balance while subjects were immersed in a virtual grocery store environment. They will present their ideas on how VR environments can be used for therapeutic purposes for people with balance disorders. Specifically, a grocery store was chosen because of the need to simultaneously walk through different aisles while looking at various height levels of products.

Read the full abstract at NIH NIDCD Abstracts

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