Practicing social interactions or advocacy skills through virtual reality can help individuals, particularly those with social anxiety, become more comfortable before engaging in real-world interactions.

“But I could imagine practicing a social interaction. Or a kid that has a lot of social anxiety or that needs to advocate for themselves better learning how to do that progressively through a virtual interaction, and then taking that to the real world because, in my very recent experience today, it's so blended now with real experience that the kid that feels terrified of advocating for themselves, or just talking to another human being, or an adult, or being in a new circumstance of a room full of kids, you could really experience that in silico first and get comfortable, let the nervous system attenuate a bit, and then take it into the, quote unquote, "physical world."”