virtual reality and neurological rehabilitation

Virtual reality can help people with brain injuries to regain the ability to perform elementary activities by rehabilitation of injured areas of the brain or helping patients to learn to develop new areas. Virtual reality can train people who have lost some sensory functions for direction in a new setting by first exposing them to a virtual (e.g. sound and kinesthetic) layout of that setting. Electric Poetic Space: Full Sensory Immersion also may be of interest to you.

Virtual reality also has the flexibility to be a tremendous aid for design in the fields of applied science and manufacturing, architecture and construction, biotechnology and nanopharmacology, biochemistry and modeling at the molecular scale, medicine and bionics, the apparel industry, and the fine arts. Three-dimensional artificially constructed molecules and biological structures can be assembled and handled virtually. Electronics may be fabricated and tested without creation of a physical model. Virtual modeling clay can be shaped into various forms for either aesthetic or practical purposes. See Virtual Tours San Francisco, California for more about this.

The site on Virtual Reality and Surgery has additional information.