Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications are growing in popularity as hardware becomes more accessible. Most smartphones are now capable of running VR and AR applications, to varying degrees.<\/p>\n
I was interested to find out what VR and AR applications have been developed that involve a link to dementia.\u00a0 I found this article<\/a>, which offers a short review of such applications, and a few other examples elsewhere too.<\/p>\n In this blog post I will share with you these examples of VR and AR applications involving dementia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are a range of VR applications that are used to help carers and people unaffected by dementia understand what it is like to live with dementia.<\/p>\n One example is A Walk Through Dementia<\/i><\/a> from Alzheimer's Research UK<\/a>. Together with people living with dementia, they created a series of 360-degree videos demonstrating what people with dementia experience in everyday situations. These videos that can be viewed either simply as a video or by using a Google cardboard type of headset. Here is an example of someone trying to make tea for some visitors. You can click and drag after pressing play to look around the room.<\/p>\nUnderstanding Dementia<\/h2>\n