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02.11.2023 - 12:29 / venturebeat.com / Space / Will
XRHealth, a healthcare spatial computing platform, will send a VR headset and mental health apps into space to treat astronauts at the International Space Station.
XR Health and an HTC Vive VR headset will be used for the first time ever at the ISS. An HTC virtual reality headset will be sent to space to treat astronauts for mental health conditions during their next space mission targeted for launch on November 5.
XRHealth partnered with Nord-Space Aps and HTC VIVE to configure the Vive Focus 3 headset to be compatible with the microgravity conditions of space.
While on a space mission, astronauts live in isolation and in non-stimulating and highly stressful environments that could potentially lead to mental health conditions. To address this, Nord-Space Aps created a virtual assistance mental balance initiative aimed to address astronauts’ specific needs to maintain mental health while in orbit. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be the first astronaut in space to use the VR headset for preventative care during his six to eight month mission with NASA Crew-7.
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“Astronauts are essentially isolated during their missions for months and years at a time and are confined to small spaces with limited contact with friends and family,” said Per Lundahl Thomsen, CTO at Nord-Space Aps, in a statement. “Creating a virtual platform that addresses their mental health needs while in isolation is imperative for them to maintain a healthy lifestyle when they return. We partnered with companies that provide the most advanced technologies that could be adapted for space to provide the most beneficial experience for our astronauts.”
The VR therapy will take place on the HTC Vive Focus 3 headset with the simulator mode that was specially developed and adapted to work with the microgravity environment. In the past, using a VR headset in a microgravity environment posed multiple challenges around tracking and orientation since the jittering, rolling, and drifting of the content caused motion sickness and left astronauts unable to read the content in the headset.
“What an incredible honor that NASA, ESA, XRHealth, and Nord-Space Aps are using HTC Vive technology to tackle some of humanity’s most complex challenges in space exploration: isolation and mental health,” said Cher Wang, chairwoman of HTC, in a statement. “It’s a testament to our culture of innovation that VIVE Focus 3 was selected out of multiple VR headsets to accompany NASA Crew-7 on their months-long mission to the ISS. Our team tackled unique
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