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Today, virtual reality is being used in the treatment of children with anxiety disorders to expose them to feared stimuli in a controlled way that they can tolerate. Although the amount of research on this approach has been limited, it has been helpful for children with school phobias and phobias of spiders (Bouchard, 2011; Bouchard, Wiederhold, & Bossé, 2014). Rather than placing the child in a completely virtual environment, it is now also possible to add images of feared elements, such as a spider, to a child’s view of the real environment, a technique that is known as augmented reality (Baus & Bouchard, 2014). This is a promising new way to treat phobias.

Treating phobias with augmented reality. If you were fearful of spiders, would the image of this spider superimposed on your hand via augmented reality help you to overcome that fear?