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.
For example: the Room environment
- “You need to go to the basement because you left the car keys there (or some other important object), so you will need to take the elevator from your block and descend to the last floor”
- “The elevator in your block is quite old and narrow, but it is the only way you can get down to the basement, since there are no stairs to the last floor.”
- “Once the door closes, remember you will encounter a floor below the first floor and the only way to go back up will be by the way you came.”
- “The elevator door has closed, and it may head up since other neighbors may have called the elevator, so if you wish to return, you will not be able to use it immediately.”
- “The basement is at the end of quite a narrow hall, the walls are quite dirty so best not to touch them.”
Other example: Elevator environments
- “Going to the ninth floor, so the stairs is not an option, you will have to take the elevator.”
- “You will ascend in the elevator with other neighbours, so staying calm would be a good option so as to avoid an awkward situation”.
- “How do you feel when you know there are other people in the elevator? Do you become more aggravated or it is calming to know you will be accompanied?”
- (Inside the elevator) “Some neighbors in the lobby mention the elevator has been having problems recently, and the service technician was on holidays.” (this gives rise to the breakdown event activation)