iACToR

International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation

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SuperSensing Science: Polarotactic People, HyperPolarized light & PlantWave Garden Example

P olarotactic people appear more attracted to linearly polarized light (sunsets on the sea, or on light reflected from a shiny car (especially black or red cars: they happen to reflect light similarly to how water does)…

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Added by Randy Eady on April 22, 2020 at 6:42am — No Comments

Breathing & Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Ancient Medicine Made Modern w/Neuromodulation

Respiratory-Gated Vagal Afferent Nerve Stimulation (RAVANS) @Mass Gen Hospital (MGH) is showing promise in the investigation of non-invasive therapies.  This is significant as nerve stimulation is often pitted as an alternative to more disruptive pain management therapies — particularly opioids

“There is a great need to…

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Added by Randy Eady on January 15, 2020 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Bioelectronics & NEUROMODULATION: Using Your Personal Electrome* to Tackle Symptoms & Underlying Disease

ClearUP’s pulsed electrical current works in two ways.…

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Added by Randy Eady on January 6, 2020 at 6:57pm — 1 Comment

Homo Musicus:  Cybernetically Embracing Visceral Sonic Engagement

In 2019, the U.S. military spent approximately $485 million on music/Sonics (about 3x as much as the entire budget of the National Endowment for the Arts) in "cybernetically hunting the good stuff". 

With special attention to the ways acoustics and music (by and for service members) has enhanced multiple functions for the military, the varied (and cybernetically delivered) technologies through which music has…

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Added by Randy Eady on December 28, 2019 at 5:32pm — 6 Comments

Electrome in CyberTherapeutics

"Without cell-to-cell communication there's no multicellular existence." 

"Electrome" is a novel term for the totality of all ionic currents of any living entity, from the cellular to the holistic organism-level.  Cellular…

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Added by Randy Eady on December 14, 2019 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

NeuroAcoustic Awakening: Transversing Touch to Sense Your Inner Being

Can we heighten our capacity to spontaneously synchronize?  How does the notion of being in syncopated rhythmic unison​ actually​ influence our consciousness?…

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Added by Randy Eady on October 9, 2019 at 3:26am — 6 Comments

Intergenerational-cybertherapeutic Augments in VR

In the midst of a key film festival on the annual circuit:  there arrives a dedicated space to demo immersive programming's substantial advancements in technology and storytelling. 
For years now, the TFF's taken the lead in showcasing virtual,  augmented & extended reality works.
This year five VR experiences made their world premieres. These worlds unfurl…
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Added by Randy Eady on May 29, 2019 at 11:18am — 1 Comment

International Congress on Love & Sex w/Robots

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Added by Randy Eady on April 11, 2019 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Concerning, RoboCare

By 2022 Japan’s robot…

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Added by Randy Eady on April 10, 2019 at 9:09am — No Comments

=) to See if You've PD

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Added by Randy Eady on April 5, 2019 at 8:17am — No Comments

Virtual Healing, "Wonder Woman" & Peering into the 1st CyberPsych App

Objectifying emotions previously thought hidden from conscious awareness. . . became a life long passion of William Moulton Marston. . . as he and his wife…

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Added by Randy Eady on April 2, 2019 at 4:30am — No Comments

Hands-Free Ping Pong?

Move your ass and the mind follows.

Or is that the other way round?  

Anyway pull up a stool that glows and give this a whirl.

Beats balancing on your hands...…

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Added by Randy Eady on June 22, 2018 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Stress Blindness? We've Got the VR Goggles for That



. . .it involves a cellular function of the endothelial cells which make up the blood vessel walls -- when chronically or traumatically exposed to stress hormones such as cortisol or adrenaline -- they become dysfunctional. This dysfunction leads to the walls of the endothelial cells constricting.



This reduces blood flow to crucial areas of the brain, such…

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Added by Randy Eady on June 22, 2018 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Virtual Presence: Cybertherapeutic Benefit of Digitally Delighting the Big Three

Technology allowing for "virtual communication" of touch, smell and taste  -- by digitally delighting these senses -- can go a long long way to increasing the sense of presence. It may also provide some important therapeutic benefits.

Our world is truly dominated…

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Added by Randy Eady on January 5, 2018 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

Wunderkammer in VR-emotional Evocation Research (Applying Eye Tracking, Unconstrained Gaze & Movement Patterns)

Introducing the Wunderkammer as a VR-emotionally evocative tool for emotion research

(Applying Eye Tracking, Unconstrained Gaze and Movement Pattern)

The “Wunderkammer” is a immersive virtual world suite with different types of emotionally-charged content. Three Realms were applied to examine the effects of…

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Added by Randy Eady on December 24, 2017 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

VR, Eye-Tracking Foveation & Magic Leap's Digital LightFields to SyncThink

VR-integrated, mobile eye-track device (EyeSync) shows how methods to determine concussive/traumatic injury can enhance learning/education. . .…

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Added by Randy Eady on December 20, 2017 at 6:30am — 7 Comments

Virtual Worlds, Disability, and New Cultures of the Embodied Self

People with disabilities have been @ the forefront of technology innovation.

What can their creative uses of and adaptions to online social interaction teach us?

Focusing on the experiences of people w/disabilities in “virtual worlds,” three-dimensional, immersive-VRE (virtual reality experience) online spaces -- where people w/disabilities can appear…

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Added by Randy Eady on December 16, 2017 at 7:04am — No Comments

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