A virtual reality start-up called Healthy Mind is being developed to help relax patients during hospital examinations or treatments, and is being tested in France. The three graduates who founded it have won a $20,000 prize from an Australian university, and are to present their program to Microsoft. “VR has the potential to be used for many different things,” said Dr. David L. Hawkins, director of Microsoft
A virtual reality start-up called Healthy Mind is being developed to help relax patients during hospital examinations or treatments, and is being tested in France. The three graduates who founded it have won a $20,000 prize from an Australian university, and are to present their program to Microsoft. VR goggles take the patient on a virtual journey, play music or offer a riddle to be solved, to make the patients less aware of minor but painful hospital procedures like having a cut stitched, a catheter inserted or a dislocated shoulder being pushed into place.