Recommendations for use
To increase the sense of immersion in Virtual Reality, you can include comments, questions or ideas in the session so the experience will seem more realistic to your patient.
Some examples for the crowded spaces environments
- You are leaving home and you remember you will have to cross a square full of protesters.
- Today we are going to take the underground after work during rush hour.
- How does that make you feel? Why?
- You should be leaving for work now since it’s getting late
- You should take the underground because if you walk, you won’t get to your destination on time.
- Right now, you are in the middle of a protest with a lot of people around you. How do you feel?
- Today we will go for a walk from your house to your parents’/friend’s/ girlfriend’s or boyfriend‘s house. This walk will last 10/15/20/”x amount” of minutes.
- Imagine that, upon entering the underground station, your phone runs out of battery.
- On this occasion you find yourself walking through a(n) empty/ moderately busy/extremely busy – street. How do you feel?
- Would you feel any different if you were alone in this situation?