What You Should Know:
- TRIPP, the award-winning wellness company, announces its arrival on the highly anticipated Apple Vision Pro, redefining the boundaries of personalized well-being experiences.
- The integration with Apple Vision Pro unlocks TRIPP's most immersive and visually captivating journey yet, seamlessly blending awe-inspiring worldscapes with users' surroundings through Apple Vision Pro's groundbreaking spatial computing capabilities.
Reimagining Wellness with Apple Vision
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Cedars-Sinai Launches AI-Powered VR Therapy App on Apple Vision Pro
What You Should Know:
- Cedars-Sinai clinicians have teamed up with AI experts to develop an AI-powered VR therapy app, Xaia, that leverages the power of Apple Vision Pro to offer an immersive, accessible approach to mental health support.
- By harnessing the power of AI and virtual reality, the app offers a convenient, engaging, and effective way for individuals to manage their mental well-being. As technology continues to evolve, apps like Xaia hold immense potential to democratize
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XRHealth Secures $6M to Enhance Immersive VR/AR Experiences
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth, the leading healthcare platform in Spatial Computing, announced today a $6M funding round led by Asabys Partners, with participation from NOVA Prime Fund and XRHealth's existing investors.
- This milestone follows the successful merger with Amelia Virtual Care, solidifying XRHealth's position as the largest extended reality (XR) platform encompassing mental, physical, and occupational health.
VR/AR Meets Patient Needs
XRHealth's platform leverages
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VA Expands Access to Virtual Reality Pain Therapy for Veterans with AppliedVR Partnership
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking a major step forward in pain management by expanding its contract with AppliedVR, a provider of immersive therapeutics (ITx) using virtual reality (VR).
- This contract expansion will significantly increase access to RelieVRx®, the first and only FDA-authorized in-home VR treatment for chronic lower back pain (CLBP).\
Continue Use of Virtual Reality for Treating Chronic Low Back Pain
Chronic pain affects
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Smileyscope Receives FDA Clearance for First-Ever VR Analgesic
What You Should Know:
- Smileyscope™, a pioneer in virtual reality (VR) therapeutic solutions, has received Class II clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Smileyscope™ Therapy system.
- The FDA clearance marks Smileyscope as the first and only VR Analgesic™ available in the US.
Digital Therapeutics Leadership
Smileyscope's FDA clearance underscores its leadership in Digital Therapeutics, a category defined as delivering medical interventions directly to
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AppliedVR Releases Clinical Trial Results from In-Home Virtual Reality Program for Chronic Lower Back Pain
What You Should Know:
- AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics pioneer, conducted a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) on virtual reality (VR) therapy for treating chronic low back pain (CLBP) at home.
- Results of the study were published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health and demonstrated that AppliedVR's RelieVRx program produced clinically meaningful improvements in adults with CLBP.
- AppliedVR aims to provide a non-pharmacological and non-invasive approach to treating
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XRHealth Deploys VR Headsets in Israel to Assist Victims of Hamas Attacks
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth today announced that they are currently deploying hundreds of VR headsets in Israel to treat patients coping with anxiety, stress, and PTSD as a result of the recent Hamas attacks.
- The distribution of the headsets will span across 30 hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and mental health centers throughout Israel (including three Clalit hospitals).
Assisting Patients Coping with Anxiety, Stress, and PTSD
Just 48-hours
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Study: Virtual Reality Effective for Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
What You Should Know:
TRIPP, a global XR wellness company, announced the completion of TRIPP PsyAssist’s Phase 1 Proof Of Concept (POC) Feasibility Study. The first phase of the breakthrough study shows virtual reality (VR) as an effective tool to help patients prepare for ketamine-assisted therapy
Research Background
The study focuses on investigating the effects of a Virtual Reality (VR) experience before Ketamine dosing and was conducted at the esteemed Kadima
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Virtual Reality Training for Nurses Solution Launches to Enhance Nursing Education
What You Should Know:
Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical have officially launched vrClinicals for Nursing. The virtual reality (VR) based learning solution helps address today’s gaps in nursing education and the nursing workforce, allowing students to go from the classroom to a busy hospital ward where they encounter true-to-life challenges such as prioritizing care among multiple patients and the demands of practice.vrClinicals for Nursing was designed with instructors and
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GigXR to Develop Holographic Simulation Training for Combat Care
What You Should Know:
Today, global holographic healthcare training providers, GigXR, announce a second Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to develop holographic simulation training for the 354th Medical Group United States Air Force (USAF).The contract signifies another step forward for XR as a means to deliver hyper-realistic, immersive training tools. GigXR has been selected to create Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training built for its TIME
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