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Hoffiman and his colleagues have found that games like this can be used
to help people ignore Daim. They have created a game to help the victims
of terrible burns as they go through their painful treatments.
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the use of games to help patients ignore pain. To be effective, the game
must be a fully three-dimensional environment. Playing a game on an
ordinary fat screen, as We usually do is not enough 一 these games are
most effective 潤 the patient plays using 8pecial goggles that give the
ilusion of being inside the game World. As a matter of fact, Hoffman
found that the better the quality of the ilusion, the better the game
was at helping patients ignore pain. Subjects who used 1ow-quality
equipment felt much more pain than those who used better equipment.
