JoAnn Difede, director of the Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, realized that VR might enable the woman to become more emotionally engaged in recalling her memories from that fateful day. Traditional behavioral therapy, in which she was prompted to recall her experience of 9/11, did not seem to be helping.Įnter virtual reality. For months, she was tormented by the horrific images she’d seen. Nearly 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks, but there was a psychological toll as well: long after that day, at least 10,000 firefighters, police officers, and onlookers in NYC were estimated to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). BOOK REVIEW - “Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do,” by Jeremy Bailenson (W.W.
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