Visitations - VR die entspannt

SolKutTeR · Dec 6, 2020

Vielleicht ja für den einen oder anderen interessant, quasi eine entspannungs Experience welche kostenlos ab dem 18 Dezember im Oculus Store (Oculus Go), auf Sidequest und auf Steam veröffentlicht wird.

Hier die Steam Store Verlinkung:

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Visitations is a collection of vignettes designed to relax, entrance, and enhance the viewer’s state of mind. It makes use of techniques such as binaural beats, subtle strobing, form constants, and includes a body scan meditation, a dream induction, and a soundtrack developed by a healer with experience leading traditionally inspired ceremonies. The experiences in Visitations allow users to turn inwards and explore their own stories and mental states. The spaces are open vessels waiting to be filled by the conscious intentions of the users. Ancient shamans intuitively understood the power of the mind, and that their performances would conjure the body’s innate ability to heal. Modern medicine accomplishes a similar effect with lab coats and pills. Visitations employs technology to similar ends.
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Development
Visitations has been designed from the ground up for use with stand-alone VR headsets like the Go, Quest and even phone based VR which greatly improves accessibility and ease of use. The scenes run in real-time and are procedurally generated. They never loop and are always different allowing them to be an effective object of meditation.
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Art is Therapy
Ancient shamans intuitively understood the power of the mind, and that their performances would conjure the body’s innate ability to heal. Modern medicine accomplishes a similar effect with lab coats and pills. We are beginning to understand that technology can be employed to similar ends.
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The Spirit of Experimentation
We are at the start of a long journey. Visitations is a place for artists and scientists to collaborate on experiments which will lead to a vocabulary and a set of best practices to achieving a variety of different therapeutic and aesthetic goals.
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The patient experience:

The scenes are non-interactive or only passively interactive so as not to overload the patient with potentially confusing tasks and allow them to be more introspective.

The application will orient itself to fit the the direction the patient is looking in. In this way it works for patients who are sitting up, reclining, or laying on their backs.

Patients can choose which scene is their favorite and stay with it as long as they want.

A web application allows nurses to provide audio cues to the patients and check in on their level of alertness. The scenes are designed to allow the patients to remain immobile.

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Visual and aural design principles:

The compositions are highly center focused, with attention grabbing tunnels and spirals focusing the eye on subtly strobing dots.

Subtle visual strobing at 10 hz may help entrain brainwaves to a relaxed and focused state.

Most of the scenes incorporate the kinds of imagery that patients under the influence of ketamine report such as slowly moving through geometric, spiral tunnels.

The audio makes use of binaural beats and soft ambient soundscapes to soothe the patient.
Some of the scenes are more abstract while others are designed as illustrative, natural landscapes.

The scenes are procedurally generated. They are constantly changing and never repeat. We believe this allows them to serve as more effective objects of meditation.

All of the scenes are rendered in real-time. This provides much higher quality three dimensionality than 360 video.

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Hardware

Oculus Go headsets are lightweight, inexpensive, and untethered.

They are easy for inexperienced people to manage.

They only allow for three degrees of freedom (XYZ rotation but no positional movement). This works well with experiences designed for patients who will not be moving much at all.

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Techniques

Subtle Strobing Lights
Have been shown to directly affect brainwaves, inducing dissociative states, even helping prevent Alzheimer’s.

Binaural and Isochronic Beats
Have a similar ‘brainwave entraining’ effect as strobing lights and have been used for decades in meditation practices.

Form Constants
Are geometric patterns which appear during altered states such as hypnogogia and hallucinations.

Tunnels
Draw the eye to a single point in the distance.

Body Scan
Is a common meditation practice, employed in Vipassana meditation and others.

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Use Cases

Inner Journeys

Relaxation/Focus

Mood Modification

Mini-Vacations

Mindfulness

Distraction Therapy

Infusion Therapy

Mental Reset

Meditation Assistance

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