Virtual reality is used today in many ways from training simulations like driving a car or flying an airplane, to more advanced training exercises by the military, to video games. It's also being used in surgery, bomb diffusion, archeology, geology--just about any place where a three-dimensional rendering of the environment is helpful and where the users can simulate the reality of being in that 3-D place and interacting with it.
The next generation in the technology of virtual reality is called augmented reality where things in a real environment are mixed with 'virtual' things. Imagine giving firemen the ability to see through the smoke to search burning buildings for survivors? That's just one application--imagine all the others!
Although this video is about phantom limb pain, it demonstrates how virtual reality is being used in rehabilitation.
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