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University of Washington Spider World


Application:Virtual Therapy
Equipment:nVisor SX head-mounted display, Polhemous FastTrack6 DOF motion tracker and MultiGen-Paradigm Inc. Vega VR software
Provider:Hunter Hoffman at the University of Washing HIT Lab
Photo by Ben Benschneider; courtesy of Seattle Times.

At the Human Interface Technology Lab, research psychologist Hunter Hoffman uses the "tactile stimulation" of a fake fuzzy spider to make "SpiderWorld" more real in helping people such as Veronica Kapa overcome their phobias. For the complete story, please see the Seattle Times news article at seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw.

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