Clinical Research, VR for Veterans, and Virtual Psychedelics with Professor Skip Rizzo

Professor Albert "Skip" Rizzo is a clinical psychologist, the director of medical virtual reality at the university of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, a USC department of psychiatry, researcher, and virtual reality pioneer, who has spent over two decades bringing VR into clinical settings for management and treatment of conditions, including PTSD, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's and stroke.
Outline
(00:00:00) Sizzler
(00:00:34) Introduction
(00:01:21) How Skip became interested in virtual reality
(00:05:53) Virtual reality and clinical research
(00:12:12) BraveMind: A virtual reality intervention for veterans with PTSD
(00:19:15) VR and the hype train: Is the Metaverse here to stay?
(00:23:01) Acceptance of virtual reality in the clinical community
(00:24:57) Areas of clinical VR research that deserve more attention
(00:34:13) Entrepreneurs, clinicians, and researcher working together
(00:36:07) Is there a case for reality in 2022?
(00:41:52) Technology and addiction
(00:46:16) Virtual Psychedelics Inc
(00:51:57) Connecting with Skip and his forthcoming Ukraine project
Links
Skip's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkipRizzoVR
Bring your kid back to reality: https://virgils.io