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From: A rehabilitation tool for functional balance using altered gravity and virtual reality

Figure 1

Tilted Room environment (left) and moveable system for functional neurorehabilitation (right). Left: Tilted Room environment used for training study. The subject wears a back-pack frame with air-bearings allowing friction free mediolateral motion. The frame is attached to a weight stack that provides a gravity-like load that the subject must balance against. The room contains common physical objects that have a visual "polarity" with respect to gravity, i.e. we commonly align their position with gravity thereby enhancing the perception of being upright in an upright environment. Right: In the moveable bed system the subject views two large automultiscopic LCD screens that project 3-D images. The screens represent windows in a virtual room surrounding the subject. Images can be from the patient's own home, country house etc. Note that treadmill is not shown in schematic.

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