Imagine chatting in a shared, immersive 3D space (social VR) about VR/AR and health/care while floating above one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Arriving through an animated Stargate, arrayed around and above you are giant VR headsets. As if the headsets are Star Wars-style starfighters, in some sort of repair bay. Yeah, I know, I'm stretching... But it's also really cool. Just remember these immortal Star Wars words: “Chewie, we’re home.” — Han Solo

HLTH: Creating Health's Future, Oct 27-30

VR Days Europe

VR/AR Global Summit

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• Clinical Applications of Immersive Technologies in Pediatric Healthcare (w/Thomas Jon Caruso and Ellen Wang)

• What is Coming in Healthcare XR aka Spatial Computing: A Fireside Chat (Sarah Hirx, Stanford Healthcare; Angela Robert SIG Chair for Serious Games and Virtual Environments, Society for Simulation in Healthcare)

• Soft Skills in Virtual Reality: Creating an Inclusive Workplace (Dan Schneider, VR Evangelist, HP; Jeff Meador, founder of JMXR, co-chair the VR/AR Association's training committee)

• XR For Poverty Reduction Initiatives (Jimmy Vainstein, World Bank) Great Social Determinants of Health angle here!

• Pain & Suffering Reduction Summit (addressing the universal challenge of Pain and Suffering)

• Virtual Worlds & Digital Twins (imagine digital twins of healthcare, human body, maybe even mind!)

• Cosmos Within Us (60-year-old man w/Alzheimer’s desperately tries to hold on to his childhood memories, @tmartir)

• Training and Simulation Summit (VR has overtaken video as the most effective means of training in physical activities with broad applications in training and simulations in the healthcare industry)

• Neuro Rehab VR, develops virtual reality exercises for neurological physical and cognitive rehabilitation leveraging the concepts of neuroplasticity

• Veena Somareddy, Co-founder and CTO at Neuro Rehab VR, a VR healthcare start-up aimed at building virtual/augmented reality therapy exercises for patients with neurological disorders

• Arno Hartholt, Co-Lead of Bravemind, a clinical, interactive, virtual reality based exposure therapy tool used to assess and treat post-traumatic stress in service members

• Floreo, the leading system for using virtual reality (VR) for training people with autism

• XRHealth, creates an XR Platform combining Medical applications with advanced data analytics, providing a comprehensive solution for clinicians and patients

• Jon Sockell, technology entrepreneur and co-founder at Limbix, a technology company based in Palo Alto creating prescription digital therapeutics for mental health that leverage virtual reality, web, and mobile technology

• Amazon Web Services, the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform (register for our upcoming Health Systems in Social VR event during & devoted to AWS re:Invent!)

• Fundamental Surgery; the HapticVR ‘flight simulator’ for surgery

• Visible Body uses innovative 3D and augmented reality technology to make learning and teaching anatomy and physiology visual, interactive, and accessible

• BehaVR creates digital therapeutics for behavioral health using Virtual Reality

• StayHealthy, highly accurate, clinically valid screening tools, but with its dynamic use of augmented reality images created using patented technology, as a way to add further emotional impact

• Jennifer Esposito, Vice President, Health, Magic Leap (Has a degree in Anthropology! Cool!)

• Alcove, breaks down social isolation w/ avirtual reality platform connecting family members across generations by bringing them together in a world filled with immersive experiences

• Rendever, overcoming social isolation and improving the patient experience through the power of virtual reality and shared experiences

• Hosted by the American Telemedicine Association > Telehealth: An RX for the Consumer Experience (IMO so much potential for social VR based solutions here!)

• Mieron, library of Virtual Reality NeuroTherapy (VRNT) exercises based in the principles of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and neurological engagement to help rehabilitation patients achieve more mobility

• Great blog post! Loneliness: The Tip of the Health ViceBerg "it’s time we add “loneliness” to the top of the list of chronic conditions impacting ill health"

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