{"id":25558,"date":"2018-12-14T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25558"},"modified":"2018-12-14T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:23:18","slug":"how-vr-is-helping-dental-patients-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25558","title":{"rendered":"How VR is helping dental patients calm down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When Shaun Denis wants to relax at work, he steps into a quiet room, outfitted with a few ferns and a chair. He slips on a virtual-reality headset and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, and escapes to the beach.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">For Denis, the CEO of Ottawa, Canada-based real estate firm Umber Realty, those minutes are for solitary meditation. They&#8217;re a tool he relies on regularly to both relieve and prevent stress.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He&#8217;s not the only one at his company to use the room, known internally as &#8220;the retreat.&#8221; The company set it up six months ago so workers could use an Oculus Go headset to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/18\/health\/virtual-reality-schools\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">watch a moon walk<\/a>, take a virtual roller-coaster ride or access a meditation app.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When Shaun Denis wants to relax at work, he steps into a quiet room, outfitted with a few ferns and a chair. He slips on a virtual-reality headset and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, and escapes to the beach.For Denis, the CEO of Ottawa, Canada-based real estate firm Umber Realty, those minutes are for solitary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}