Virtual reality has a role to play in cancer treatment and prevention

Matthew Stoudt offers a simple test for anyone doubting the effect virtual reality could have on a hospital patient. He leads people to the edge of a ledge with a 500-foot drop. Then he asks them to take a step. Some of the 3,000 people who have taken his test do. But many, including one CEO, do not. Of course, these aren’t actual jumps. The entire time, the person is wearing a pair of virtual reality goggles, taking in this ledge experience in the virtual world. But Stoudt, the CEO and cofounder of AppliedVR, offers the test to demonstrate how virtual reality can truly hijack the brain.