Yu Yuan’s Mission is to Improve Lives through Virtual Reality
From: IEEE - The Institute  - 12/15/216
By: Kathy Pretz

IEEE Senior Member Yu Yuan, who chairs the IEEE Digital Senses Initiative,
believes so much in the benefits of virtual reality, augmented reality, and
human augmentation technologies to enhance and extend people’s sensory
capabilities that he’s devoting his life to helping advance them.

"VR could help people who have a poor quality of life. It could allow them to
live in a virtual world that makes them feel happier."

"Human augmentation technologies, such as implants, exoskeletons, and
prosthetics, are already helping people with disabilities live better and
workers perform better. A concern here is not letting others know you have
augmented your body with, for example, a brain-machine interface or an
implant. Performance will be enhanced, except it won’t be with drugs, like
anabolic steroids, but with technology."

"Altering humans also presents ethical, political, and, should the
augmentation fail and create problems, legal risks that must be considered."

Read the entire article at:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/members/profiles/yu-yuans-mission-is-to-improve-lives-through-virtual-reality

Links:
A New IEEE Initiative Focuses on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and
  Human Augmentation Technologies
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/consumer-electronics/a-new-ieee-initiative-focuses-on-augmented-reality-virtual-reality-and-human-augmentation-technologies

IEEE Digital Senses
http://digitalsenses.ieee.org