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Graveyard => Save Paragon Retirees => Save Paragon City! => Topic started by: Dr Shadow on October 25, 2012, 01:23:51 AM

Title: Article on How videos games help pain.
Post by: Dr Shadow on October 25, 2012, 01:23:51 AM
http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14648057-groundbreaking-experiment-in-virtual-reality-uses-video-game-to-treat-pain

Saw this today and wonder if we could use this.
Title: Re: Article on How videos games help pain.
Post by: Turjan on October 25, 2012, 02:07:13 PM
Fascinating article that :)

It's another point to reinforce how virtual worlds, while not technically physically real, can indeed still have a very real and measurable effect in the real-real world. And the more immersive the world, the stronger the effect.

I've seen quite a few comments in the Testimonials thread from folk for whom CoH has been a sort of therapy or treatment in their lives - there's certainly a degree of sommon psychological ground between that and the US Military's endeavour in that news article.
Title: Re: Article on How videos games help pain.
Post by: DrakeGrimm on October 25, 2012, 02:25:25 PM
/me hums "I'm Going Digital" from Digimon.


/me is sort of a dork.
Title: Re: Article on How videos games help pain.
Post by: Segev on October 25, 2012, 02:30:32 PM
I know that CoH being restored could certainly help NCSoft with the pain it's feeling...