This donation of virtual reality technology to Lovell Federal Health Care Center is the 32nd BraveMind system donated to a VA or partner facility since late 2019. This is the first BraveMind virtual reality system in the state, making its treatment accessible to Illinois’ veterans for the first time. The virtual reality technology behind BraveMind was developed by Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo and his team at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Therapists select a world based on a veteran’s traumatic experience and customize it in the virtual reality headset, thus placing Veterans back within the midst of that memory at a pace they can handle. “Utilizing the virtual reality technology in BraveMind gets Veterans to talk about things they’ve never talked to anyone about before,” Rizzo said.