Janssen LP have created goggles and a headset that give the wearer the experience of having hallucinations. There are two scenarios to choose from – riding on a bus where people appear and disappear randomly and birds of prey claw at the windows, and going to pharmacy where the pharmacist gives you poison instead of pills and other customers stare at you in disgust.
They’ve used these goggles to train social workers, policemen and others who might have to deal with mentally ill people and have apparently shown that after the training the workers understand mental illness better – learning through virtual empathy!
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