004 - Medical apps in VR with Dr. Thomas Schüler

We are joined by Dr. Thomas Schüler to talk about his work in the field of Virtual Rehabilitation and medical use cases of Virtual Reality. Besides his doctoral thesis called "Using virtual illusions for stroke therapy" which was published as a book, he has further very interesting publications as a chapter called "Reflections and early evidence of the importance of presence for three types of visual feedback in virtual motor rehabilitation". Further publications as well as his CV can be found under http://www.thomasschueler.de/?page_id=31.

Currently Dr. Thomas is employed at "salt and pepper software solutions" working on virtual reality and software development in general. During the podcast he spoke about Salt and Pepper's projects such as Pain management etc.

During the Podcast we spoke about many ways how virtual reality can be useful in Medicine. Moreover we touched what has been researched and covered by science and what is done already toady.

Medical apps in VR with Dr. Thomas Schüler

Our guest this time was Dr. Thomas Schüler (via xing) and (via twitter) joined us to talk about his work in the field of Virtual Rehabilitation and medical use cases of Virtual Reality. Besides his doctoral thesis called "Using virtual illusions for stroke therapy" which was published as a book he has further very interesting publications as a chapter called Reflections and early evidence of the importance of presence for three types of visual feedback in virtual motor rehabilitation"
etc. Further publications as well as his CV can be found under his webpage. Currently Dr. Thomas is employed at salt and pepper software solutions working on virtual reality and software development in general. During the podcast he spoke about some related projects, Salt and Pepper does like Pain management etc.

Below you can find some of the studies we have spoke about as well as news and videos etc. Feel free to contact us if we missed anything or you have something interesting to share!

Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation

Body transfer illusion(rubber hand)

Virtual Reality: A Distraction Intervention for Chemotherapy

Bravemind: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

"Using virtual illusions for stroke therapy"

Thomas via twitter

Reflections and early evidence of the importance of presence for three types of visual feedback in virtual motor rehabilitation"

salt and pepper software solutions

Thomas webpage and his CV