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by bahro 3620 days ago
> Researchers at the University of Manchester, in England, have gone a step beyond mirrors and fashioned an immersive virtual-reality system for treating patients with phantom-limb pain. Detectors transpose movement of real limbs into a virtual world where patients feel they are actually moving, stretching, even playing a ballgame. So far, five patients have tried the system, and they have all experienced a reduction in pain.

Could be a pretty killer future VR/EEG (or are they using physical motion sensors configured to the "good" side of the body?) app.