Valletta Mayor Is Presenting Groundbreaking Autism VR At Stanford University And Google X

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Professor Alexiei Dingli, the current Mayor of Valletta and Senior Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta, is part of a team who've been working on a virtual reality app.

But not just any app: this app lets people puts you in the shoes of a child with autism. Once you put in the VR lenses, you are transported to a school setting and literally see and sense the world through the eyes of a child with autism.

Now, people can live the experience that an autistic child lives through everyday.

The team behind this groundbreaking technology, which also includes Dr. Vanessa Camilleri, a lecturer at the Department of AI, as well as Mr. Fouad Haddud, a student specialising in AI, wanted to overcome a specific problem they saw in people living or working with people with autism.
Valletta Mayor Is Presenting Groundbreaking Autism VR At Stanford University And Google X - Lovin Malta

That's interesting and I bet that is going to be useful.

 

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What is this supposed to do?

 

[Disir]

Show you what it is like to have autism. I am guessing it's right along the lines of those virtual reality tools that show people what it is like to have schizophrenia during interactions with others etc.

 

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Professor Alexiei Dingli, the current Mayor of Valletta and Senior Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta, is part of a team who've been working on a virtual reality app.

But not just any app: this app lets people puts you in the shoes of a child with autism. Once you put in the VR lenses, you are transported to a school setting and literally see and sense the world through the eyes of a child with autism.

Now, people can live the experience that an autistic child lives through everyday.

The team behind this groundbreaking technology, which also includes Dr. Vanessa Camilleri, a lecturer at the Department of AI, as well as Mr. Fouad Haddud, a student specialising in AI, wanted to overcome a specific problem they saw in people living or working with people with autism.
Valletta Mayor Is Presenting Groundbreaking Autism VR At Stanford University And Google X - Lovin Malta

That's interesting and I bet that is going to be useful.

Can you wear it to a casino? Daddy needs to get paid...Wapner's on at five...yeah five.

 

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What is this supposed to do?

There is a lot of visual rocking and indiscernible squeeling when another AI character tries to touch you....I heard it's a riot.