- Closed world (private) and higher use acceptance
- Higher ratings of positive remotions (more enjoyable) and a sense of presence

Benefits of Virtual Realities

- More vulnerable being not aware of real-life surroundings.
- Simulator sickness.

Disadvantages of Virtual Realities

Through the use of virtual reality technology, some psychologists have been able to treat stress. This is usually done through using pre-rendered environments to help calm patients.

Virtual Reality Stress Treatment

Virtual Reality (VR) is being used at increasing rates to distract typically developing patients during medical procedures. There are findings that VR can effectively reduce pain and anxiety with few side effects. VR has been used successfully in patients with IDD during procedures like botulinum toxin injections (with and without nitrous oxide), venipuncture, casting, and postoperative pain management.

Virtual Reality as Pain Treatment in Individuals with IDD

Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated 3D environment different from the real world and generally viewed through a headset.

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- Virtual Reality (VR)
- Mixed Reality (MR)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Extended Realities (XR)

Education in the Digital Age: Learning Experience in Virtual and Mixed Realities

1. Mobile Mental Health Support/Mental Health Apps
3. Teleconferencing
4. Virtual Reality
5. Artificial Intelligence 

Examples of technological advances in mental health care: 

Allcoat, D., Hatchard, T., Azmat, F., Stansfield, K., Watson, D., & von Mühlenen, A. (2021). Education in the Digital Age: Learning Experience in Virtual and Mixed Realities. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 59(5), 795–816. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633120985120

Allcoat et al. (2021) Education in the Digital Age: Learning Experience in Virtual and Mixed Realities

Mixed reality (MR) is when virtual objects are visible in the real world and allows virtual objects and real objects to interact.

Mixed Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is when virtual objects visible in the real world but do not allow virtual objects and real objects to interact.

Augmented Reality

Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term for a combination of VR, AR, and MR.

Extended Reality

- crisis text/call lines
- sophisticated mental health apps 

Technological Advances in Mental Health Care: Mobile Mental Health Support 

Telemedicine and Telehealth serve to:

 - make medicine and healthcare more accessible for all 
 - reduces inequity in the obtainment of medicine 
 - reduces costs related to healthcare services, vital for a time in which healthcare costs are soaring 
 - allows for a redistribution of quality (in terms of healthcare services)

Goals of Telemedicine / Telehealth 

Technological intelligence designed by humans, displayed through machines instead of humans.  
Intelligent agents - In relation to artificial intelligence, it is the machine or the program that intakes information from its environment and processes that information to achieve certain goals. 

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