A while back I read about a project by UC Davis called Virtual Hallucinations. The goal of the project is to use virtual reality to show simulations of hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia and use the simulation for training and education.

When you arrive at the exhibit, you are provided with some general information about schizophrenia. Next, you have to get a badge which you wear throughout the tour.



The exhibit takes you through a psychiatriac ward. Stops along the way simulate and explain different types of hallucinations. Throughout the tour you hear disturbing voices, which can be stopped at any time using a special command. Think Second Life meets "A Beautiful Mind".