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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
May. 22, 2019
Universitat DE Barcelona, Barcelona, ES;
Institució Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, ES;
Mel Slater, Barcelona, ES;
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Barcelona, ES;
INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, Barcelona, ES;
Abstract
Methods for gradually exposing a subject to a fear comprising: adapting a virtual reality scenario to expose the subject to the fear by gradually transforming one or more of objects from a first state to a second state, the second state of the object provoking an increase of the fear, and wherein the transforming one or more of the objects take place only if the following two conditions are fulfilled: a time condition specifying an amount of time from the previous increase of fear, and the object is in a peripheral field of vision of the subject as derived from the orientation of the head mounted device. A computer program and computing systems for gradually exposing a subject to a fear are also disclosed.