PEOPLE who have suffered a stroke are learning to walk again thanks to a close relation of virtual reality technology.
Unlike virtual reality, “augmented reality” does not completely immerse the user in a wrap-around artificial world of 3D computer graphics. Instead, it superimposes computer-generated objects onto their view of the real world.
David Jaffe, a biomedical engineer at the US Department of Veterans Affairs rehabilitation research centre in Palo Alto, California, has been using an augmented reality system to improve rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients. The brain damage a stroke causes can leave people unable to fully coordinate their movements.…
