[Digital Healing] Person stopped at café door, put on headset

1. This is a column in which Song Jeongsuk, president of the Korea Integrative Healing Association, introduces how virtual reality headsets can help people gradually become accustomed to phobias and agoraphobia.
2. In a study of 88 people with acrophobia, the group showed a clearer change than the waiting-list group, and it is reported that 27% refused conventional exposure training, compared with 3% when they first went through a virtual environment.
3. Related studies rose from 76 in 2015 to 281 last year, and research teams at Seoul National University Hospital and Samsung Medical Center are developing Korea-tailored content, according to the report.

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