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Virtual reality student project aims to cure Fear of Heights
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Virtual reality student project aims to cure Fear of Heights

Video Games – Tom Fronczak (a semester away from a degree in game design) profiles a VR studio at the University of Pittsburgh's Medical Virtual Reality Center, which he and a small team of classmates will use to develop an acrophobia (fear of heights) sim to be used during habitual therapy sessions.

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They should have joined the Army when I did. Jump school in those days required that you complete five jumps, and the fourth one was from a helicopter. It was like standing on a 1200-foot diving board. Afterwards, my acrophobia was cured, but I still suffered from vertigo.

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