From FAS Virtual Worlds Almanac
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The UC Davis Virtual Hallucinations facility in Second Life is designed to give visitors a better understanding of schizophrenia by simulating the experience of the visual and aural hallucinations associated with schizophrenia based on interviews with real schizophrenics. It can be used to train medical students, nursing students and hospital staff and give the caregivers and loved ones of patients a better understanding of the world sufferers live in.
The clinic building is based on the hallucinations of two specific people with schizophrenia. They were interviewed in detail and gave feedback on early designs for the hallucinations. While the hallucinations are not glamorous, they fairly accurately reproduce these patients' experiences. You should get a sense of just how intrusive the voices of schizophrenia really are.
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