StartUp Health February 23, 2021
“I think of it like a syringe,” says Dr. Brennan Spiegel. “It’s not the syringe that matters, it’s the medicine we put through the syringe that matters.”
Dispense with everything you know about virtual reality, says Dr. Brennan Spiegel at the start of his new book, VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics will Revolutionize Medicine. VR isn’t “a toy for pimply, pent-up teens to play first-person shooter games in their parents’ basement.” Nor is it about the goofy-looking goggles that have made their way onto the consumer market. VR, Dr. Spiegel says, “is a way to deliberately and predictably modify how we feel and how we think. It’s a platform that connects us to our heart, mind, and body.”
Dr. Spiegel...