‘Bravemind’ experience comes to Heroes Hall
A guest views a war-torn street in Iraq through a virtual reality headset during a preview of “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” a new exhibit at the Heroes Hall veterans museum at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. The breakthrough technology, created by USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, is used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in military service members.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Christopher Merkle speaks about his experience with post-traumatic stress disorder at a preview of “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” an exhibit coming to Heroes Hall at the OC Fair & Event Center.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Items collected from Marine veteran Sgt. Christopher Merkle are displayed during a preview of “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” a new exhibit opening at the Heroes Hall veterans museum at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Shannon Kubitz views a war-torn street in Iraq through a virtual reality headset during a preview of “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” an exhibit coming to Heroes Hall at the OC Fair & Event Center.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Andrew Leeds and David Kwok from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, both of whom had a hand in the project, attend a preview of the Heroes Hall exhibit “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD.”
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Albert “Skip” Rizzo of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies speaks during a preview of Heroes Hall’s new exhibit, “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Andrew Leeds, right, from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, who worked on the project, chats with a guest during a preview of the new Heroes Hall exhibit, “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD.”
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)A guest views an Iraqi street scene through a virtual reality headset during a preview of “Bravemind: Using Virtual Reality to Combat PTSD,” a new exhibit at the Heroes Hall veterans museum at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)