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 Japanese 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.
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.