Virtual reality comes to Pearl River County Hospital & Nursing Home - WDAM

POPLARVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - Imagine traveling the satellite without leaving your bedroom. Some Pearl River County Nursing Home residents are surviving - oregon re-living- their dreams acknowledgment to a section radical of students.

Phi Theta Kappa has an Honors In Action programme wherever they strive to assistance the community. This semester, they focused connected the “Art and Science of Play.”

Through a grant, they were capable to get 2 Oculus headsets to the nursing location for residents’ enjoyment.

Lauren-Anne Lagasse, the vice president of assistance for Phi Theta Kappa, said the crushed they chose to donate these headsets to the nursing location was to springiness the residents a caller mode to play.

“We decided that we would absorption connected the older procreation due to the fact that erstwhile you perceive ‘play’ a batch of times you absorption connected children, and the older procreation benignant of gets pushed to the back, and radical don’t truly absorption connected them,” said Lauren-Anne. “We wanted to beryllium capable to bring antithetic experiences to idiosyncratic who mightiness not beryllium capable to person them.”

Virtual Reality has since go a large deed with the residents. They person been capable to question from the comfortableness of their ain country oregon beryllium capable to beryllium extracurricular and bask the caller aerial portion utilizing the headsets.

Amanda Knight, the activities manager astatine the nursing home, said she sees much of a affirmative absorption from the residents than she expected.

“I’ve seen reactions from residents that I didn’t deliberation would ever bask this that perfectly emotion it and inquire for it a lot,” said Knight.

Knight said they bring retired the headsets astir erstwhile a month, but galore residents inquire for much clip with the headsets.

Phi Theta Kappa is already discussing expanding this programme into different nursing homes astir South Mississippi.

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