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Episode five of Future First is titled "Your Brain On VR." In it, we explore how virtual reality is paving the way for new technological therapeutics and VR exposure therapy can help treat people with anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Helping to lead the discussion are Albert “Skip” Rizzo PhD (Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies), Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD (Director, Gazzaley Lab/UCSF Neuroscience Imaging CTR), Jeremy Bailenson, PhD (Director, Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab), and US Army veteran Ben Bain.
Technology is really a marvel. So often, as new technology comes out and allows us to do things that were thought impossible in the past, we hear the phrase "The future is now." Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies like these in a video series called Future First.

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XPRIZE is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. XPRIZE addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.

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VIDEO CREDITS

Producer: Dave Kebo
Cinematographer: LJ Kim, Trevor Traynor
Editor: Dave Kebo Show less