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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (509) Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (372)

Published on in Vol 6 , No 4 (2018) :Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10839, first published .
Virtual Reality Clinical Research: Promises and Challenges

Virtual Reality Clinical Research: Promises and Challenges

Virtual Reality Clinical Research: Promises and Challenges

Authors of this article:

Bernie Garrett 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Tarnia Taverner 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Diane Gromala 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Gordon Tao 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Elliott Cordingley 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Crystal Sun 1 Author Orcid Image
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