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Glastonbury Festival get to experience nature through VR
Festival goers will be able to try virtual reality (VR) nature experiences that researchers say can help with mental health and pain Sam Hughes of the University of Exeter is to exhibit the benefits of nature though VR, art, sound and film at Glastonbury Festival later this director of Exeter Pain Lab said immersing people in nature can reduce the amount of pain they feel and VR made nature accessible to those with mobility Hughes said the festival was "a great way to showcase the ability to use VR to deliver nature and its benefits to people from the comfort of their own homes".
'Nature at home'
He said the VR headsets would immerse festival goers in environments including forests, mountains and said: "Pain is inherently a psychological construct."If we can immerse people in nature what we've found is that this can actually reduce the amount of pain people experience."While "real nature is always going to be the gold standard", he added, VR can deliver "some of these beneficial therapeutic effects of nature at home".The immersive experience is part of Brainwaves and Birdsong, a public engagement initiative by a team of scientists, mural artists, music composers and wildlife documentary project is funded through the Chronic Pain Neurotechnology Festival is set to run from 25 to 29 June at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
