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Today we sit down with Erin Reynolds to discuss using video games as therapy.
In 2014, Reynolds turned her master’s thesis project at USC’s Interactive Media Program into a video game made up of the stuff of nightmares, literally. Nevermind was designed to virtually drop people into the terrors of a trauma patient’s psyche. A player’s real heart rate is monitored in the game to tweak the difficulty and adjust Nevermind’s ability to rattle the player.
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