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“Look down,” Pinar Yanardag tells me.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist was sitting with me not long ago in a large, bustling room in Cambridge, Mass. But the view in my virtual reality headset was of a dimly lit nursery with baby photos on the walls. I heard peaceful music playing.
When I looked down, I was startled to see an animated baby nursing at my left breast.
The virtual reality scene was a neat trick — but it’s also at the heart of a technology Yanardag hopes could one day transform the postpartum experience. The first step is what she calls “,” an both more enjoyably and more effectively.
