3D Audio for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is an effective method to treat anxiety disorders and comes with many advantages over exposure in vivo, the latter being exposure in real-life. VRET is done by exposing patients gradually with their fear by using immersive virtual environments (VEs). Most attention in VRET research goes to visuals and less...

Addressing Patient Motivation In Virtual Reality Based Neurocognitive Rehabilitation

Cognitive rehabilitation exercises are typically not designed to be motivating. The use of virtual reality and gaming technology can help with increasing the patient’s motivation and adherence. A physically active gaming experience leads to an increased adherence and affective attitude and an increased incentive to engage with healthy behavior....

Virtual Reality and Social Phobia: Recreating a social situation in virtual reality

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer simulated environment and could offer a powerful tool in the future treatment of phobias. An application of VR is Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) in which a phobia patient is exposed to a virtual environment containing the feared stimulus instead of...

Reaching a higher sense of presence in VR through 3D architectural visualization

This thesis focused on researching 3D visualization in VR and its possible effect on the sense of presence. Being one of the largest historic market squares of Europe, the Delft market square was chosen as the most suitable candidate for the project "VR and phobias" in researching Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in respect to agoraphobia. Two...