Psychology VR Apps

  • 6x9

    Solitary confinement room

    6x9 takes you to a virtual cell, telling a story of the psychological damage of extreme isolation. Right now, more than 80,000 people are in solitary confinement in the US. They spend 22-­24 hours a day in their cells, with little to no human contact for days or even decades. We invite you into this world. Actual voices recorded by PBS!

  • Becoming Homeless

    Eviction Notice

    An interactive VR experience that puts users in the shoes of someone experiencing an eviction. The user, is put through various scenarios through this experiences, one such being having to sell items in their apartment to pay a rent fee.

  • Fearless

    room where fearless vr takes place

    Fearless helps you overcome your fears of spiders, cockroaches, and bees/wasps. Fearless will guide you at your own pace, starting with a friendly cartoon drawing. Inspired by proven exposure therapy techniques. The goal is to help you overcome all your fears with an experience that is as comfortable as possible, but you will be facing your fears.

  • Is Anna OK?

    Anna and her twin

    Step into the shoes of 20-year-old twins Anna and Lauren to discover how an accident changes their lives. The BBC takes you on an emotional journey to piece together both sides of their true story. Explore fragmented memories, find clues in the objects around you, and become part of their illustrated world.

  • Notes on Blindness

    visual of notes on blindness vr

    This is a VR journey into a world beyond sight. In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. These original diary recordings form the basis of this project, an interactive nonfiction using new forms of storytelling to explore his cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.

  • The Marvellous Machine

    The Marvellous Machine intro

    This is an amazing VR experience on the concept of mindfulness for the hands-on learner who is visual. Mindfulness is a behavioral therapy technique that grounds a person in the present so that they can clear their minds of painful thoughts and emotions regarding the past and future. The narrator provides an outstanding visual presentation in a steam factory scene full of moving gears that represent the machine of our minds. She guides the viewer on how to detach emotionally and mentally from painful thoughts (past or present) by essentially learning non-judgement of those thoughts, and by understanding that we all truly do have control over our minds via this technique. Pain that is noticed and released (vs being judged and latched onto emotionally) does not cascade into layers of suffering (anxieties, sadness, fears, regrets). This concept of "talk therapy" has become one of the most evidenced based form of psychotherapy.