Visual tools employed to stave off dementia

Experts from the United States are developing augmented reality and virtual reality systems to help prevent dementia in patients at early ages.

The research mainly focuses on restoring past scenarios lingering within the human brain through AR and VR technologies, according to Steve Chen, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the US.

"What we are doing is trying to connect human brains to real life, rather than creating new scenarios," Chen said on the sidelines of the 18th China Conference on Virtual Reality in Qingdao, Shandong province, which concluded on Wednesday.