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Who doesn’t love a good research paper about being attracted to fictional anime boys? It’s easy to merely find it amusing that someone far smarter than all of us is spending time trying to figure out the science behind playing otome games (games in which romantic relationships toward male characters are the core of the…

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Professor Ollie Minton, Consultant in End of Life Care and Palliative Medicine at UHSussex and co-lead of the study, wearing the virtual reality (VR) technology used in the trial.

As anxiety disorders continue to affect a growing number of adolescents, researchers are exploring whether a therapeutic video game can help teens strengthen the attention skills commonly taught in conventional therapy.

Two Meta employees who told Congress that children were being sexually propositioned inside the company’s virtual reality platform have been fired. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a formal letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on July 22 demanding that the company explain those terminations — and set a deadline of August 5 to…