Virtual Reality (VR) has limitless possibilities for the creation of 3D stimuli for treating psychiatric patients . In virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET), a person is exposed to a computer-generated virtual environment with the help of a head-mounted display device, flat screen or a computer-automated room with images all around. This virtual environment provides visual, auditory, tactile, vibratory, vestibular, and olfactory stimuli to patients.
Such a system helps a person confront feared situations or locations that are difficult and unsafe to encounter in real life. The advantages of VR over traditional experiments include the provision to control spatial distribution of light in the visual scene as well as the distance and position of stimuli. By manipulating objects in 3D space, the effects of positive and negative parallax can also be observed which is not possible using a…
