Limbix VR Library

Teleporter

This program uses Google Street View to transport patients to any address on Google Maps. For exposure therapy, this can be helpful for triggering memories and emotions without physically having to go to the location. For entertainment, this program mobilizes people, allowing them to visit places from their past, or places they’d like to visit in the future.

Use Cases

• PTSD exposure therapy
• Anxiety and phobia exposure therapy
• Addiction-related exposure therapy
• Travel entertainment

Driving

This program allows a patient to sit behind the wheel of a car in various environments that the therapist or clinician can specify. They can drive on different highways, bridges and roads in various weather conditions. For exposure therapy, this can be used to help patients imagine getting in the car and driving. Driving can also be used for entertainment purposes.

Use Cases

• Driving phobia exposure therapy
• PTSD exposure therapy
• Anxiety exposure therapy
• Entertainment for kids and adults

Public Speaking

In this experience, practice giving a presentation in front of an audience in a conference room. The therapist or clinician can control aspects of the environment including position in the room, receptiveness of the audience, and audience attire.

Use Cases

• Fear of public speaking exposure therapy
• Skills training for public speaking
• Skills training for social anxiety

Claustrophobia

This program allows a therapist or clinician to place patients in small or enclosed environments. Varying types of environments allow for the creation of a fear hierarchy, which patients can use to address their fears.

Use Cases

• Claustrophobia exposure therapy
• Agoraphobia exposure therapy
• PTSD exposure therapy

Fear of Needles

This program allows a therapist or clinician to guide patients through scenarios that they would experience if visiting a doctor’s office. This includes entering the waiting room, checking in at reception, listening to procedure overviews from a physician, and watching someone undergo an injection or blood draw.

Use Cases

• Fear of needles exposure therapy
• Fear of blood draws exposure therapy
• Fear of visiting the doctor (latrophobia)

Agoraphobia

Experience crowded places, public transit, open spaces and other public environments where escape seems difficult or impossible. This can be helpful for placing patients in situations that are hard to replicate inside of a therapist’s office.

Use Cases

• Agoraphobia exposure therapy
• Claustrophobia exposure therapy

Focus Meditation

Practice single object focus meditation in a distraction-free environment. Therapists and clinicians have the ability to select the background music that plays while the patient is invited to focus their attention on a flickering candle.

Use Cases

• Mindfulness skills training
• Meditation skills training
• Practice focus meditation without distraction
• Attention skills training

Nature Environments

Be transported to peaceful, outdoor locations in order to reduce feelings of anxiety and increase a sense of wellbeing. Therapists or clinicians have the ability to choose from a variety of environments, including forests, beaches, mountains, lakes, and gardens. Patients are invited to listen to a basic meditation or learn how to engage in deep breathing, also called diaphragmatic breathing.

Use Cases

• Relax before, during and after procedures
• Mindfulness skills training
• Meditation skills training
• Breath training
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Entertainment for kids and adults
• Increase a sense of wellbeing

Vitamin Bee

In this game, help bees collect pollen to take back to their hive to make honey. From atop a flower in a grassy meadow, launch pollen into the air that bees can catch and collect. This game can be used for both child and adult patients, for distraction, relaxation, or entertainment. Meta-analytic data supports the effectiveness of VR distraction for reducing pain (Kenney & Milling, 2016).

Use Cases

• Pain distraction during procedures
• Relaxation or distraction before, during and after procedures
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Entertainment for kids and adults

World Travel

In these short experiences, patients can virtually travel to famous cities and sites, like Venice, Istanbul, Cairo, and Paris. For patients who are immobile or without means to travel, this can provide a welcome escape.

Use Cases

• Help patients relax before, during and after procedures
• Entertainment for kids and adults

TED-Ed Movie Theater

Choose an ideal virtual theater environment from a number of options — like a relaxing beach theater or a comfortable home cinema. Therapists and clinicians can choose which video their patient watches. This is a useful experience for distraction, relaxation, education and entertainment.

Use Cases

• Distraction during procedures
• Relax before, during and after procedures
• General mental health education
• Entertainment for kids and adults

Adolescent Depression Intervention

This single-session intervention for adolescent depression teaches how adopting a growth mindset can be helpful for overcoming depression. The goal of this experience is not only to bring insight into depression — and let adolescents know they aren’t alone in their struggles — but also to teach adolescents how to process and work through their feelings and challenges. This experience was created by: Jessica Schleider, Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Lab for Scalable Mental Health; John R. Weisz, Ph.D., ABPP, Harvard University, Laboratory for Youth Mental Health; and Michael Mullarkey, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin, Mood Disorders Laboratory. A web-based version of this intervention was associated with decreases in depressive symptoms and increased perceived primary control at a 9-month follow-up (Schleider & Weisz, 2017).

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Skills training for depression
• Mindfulness skills training

TreeMind

Observe an environment in the midst of winter. As the experience progresses, engage in tasks that encourage mindful growth and exploration, which help the environment transition to spring. Designed by mindfulness experts, this experience allows patients to connect with nature as well as their own thoughts and feelings. It can be used to help patients relax and reduce their feelings of anxiety while practicing mindfulness skills.

Use Cases

• Mindfulness skills training
• Relax before, during and after procedures
• Mindful breathing
• Meditation skills training
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Increase a sense of wellbeing

Breathing Exercises

Amidst a starry landscape, learn about diaphragmatic breathing (deep breathing) and practice an exercise designed to help patients visualize their breath. Patients are invited to pace their breath along with the movement of stars and fog in the environment.

Use Cases

• Mindfulness skills training
• Relax before, during and after procedures
• Mindful breathing
• Meditation skills training
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Increase a sense of wellbeing

Bars & Drinks

Go inside a bar full of patrons, bartenders, and drinks. Patients struggling with alcoholism can practice refusal skills alongside a trained therapist or clinician who controls the environment. This can be helpful for placing patients in situations that are hard to replicate inside of an office and are riskier to experience in vivo.

Use Cases

• Addiction triggers exposure therapy
• Refusal skills training

Manta Ray Bay

Patients are invited to navigate a manta ray through a calm, underwater seascape, collecting plankton and fish friends along the way. This game can be used for both child and adult patients for distraction, relaxation, and entertainment.

Use Cases

• Pain distraction during procedures
• Relax before, during and after procedures
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Entertainment for kids and adults

World Trivia

In this trivia game patients will be randomly placed in different locations around the world and asked multiple choice questions with the goal of correctly identifying their location. See how many in a row you can get right! For patients who are immobile or without means to travel, this can provide a welcome escape.

Use Cases

• Distraction during procedures
• Entertainment for kids and adults
• Relax before, during and after procedures

Addiction 101

Built in collaboration with Patrick Bordnick, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Social Work at Tulane University, this program instructs users how substance addiction impacts the body and techniques that can be used to cope.

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Skills training for addiction
• Enhance learnings before therapy
• Reinforce learnings after therapy

Depression 101

Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches how depression impacts our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program also includes information about skills that have been found to help patients manage and stop the vicious spiral of depression.

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Enhance learnings before therapy
• Reinforce learnings after therapy

Anxiety 101

Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches why anxiety occurs and the different ways anxiety impacts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program also provides information about skills that have been found to help a patient manage feelings of anxiety.

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Enhance learnings before therapy
• Reinforce learnings after therapy

PTSD 101

Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches about the posttraumatic stress response and how it impacts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program provides information about skills that can help patients heal from trauma.

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Enhance learnings before therapy
• Reinforce learnings after therapy

Pain Reduction 101

This program teaches the different ways pain impacts thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and provides information about skills that have been found to help manage and reduce pain symptoms.

Use Cases

• Psychoeducation
• Pain management
• Enhance learnings before therapy
• Reinforce learnings after therapy

Fear of Heights

This programs allows therapists or clinicians to gradually take their patient to higher and higher heights. You can start on the bottom floor and work your way up a building. Varying heights allow for the creation of a fear hierarchy, which can be used to address a patient’s fears.

Use Cases

• Fear of heights exposure therapy
• Anxiety exposure therapy

Fear of Flying

This program allows a therapist or clinician to guide patients through scenarios that they would experience when going to an airport for a flight. This includes check-in, going through security, boarding the plane, take-off, and touch-down.

Use Cases

• Fear of flying exposure therapy
• Anxiety exposure therapy

Job Interview Training

Built in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto University, and Penn State University this exposure therapy program places patients in the shoes of an interviewee during a job interview. Patients can practice job interviewing skills in progressively more anxiety-provoking scenarios to better understand their feelings of social anxiety and gain experience through exposure.

Use Cases

• Social anxiety exposure therapy
• Anxiety exposure therapy
• Interview skills training

Social Anxiety Training

Built in collaboration with researchers at Stanford & Palo Alto University, this virtual reality exposure therapy program helps treat social anxiety. Participants practice overcoming their social anxiety in a series of progressively more anxiety-provoking party scenarios.

Drug Shooting Gallery

Gain refusal skills practice in the context of a drug shooting gallery. Patients can practice refusal skills alongside a trained therapist or clinician who controls the environment. This can be helpful for placing patients in situations that are hard to replicate inside of an office.

Use Cases

• Addiction triggers exposure therapy
• Refusal skills training

Guided Imagery

Built in collaboration with Dr. Steven Richeimer at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, these guided imagery experiences will guide patients suffering from chronic pain through exercises to develop coping skills, improve pain management. Research has demonstrated that guided imagery can reduce pain, pain medication use, and visits to care providers as well as improve functional outcomes, and increase quality of life, mood, and self-efficacy for managing pain (i.e., Chen & Francis, 2010; Menzies et al., 2006; Baird et al., 2010; van Tilburg et al., 2009).

Use Cases

• Pain management
• Mindfulness skills training
• Relax before, during and after procedures
• Meditation skills training
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Increase a sense of wellbeing
• Increase a sense of self-efficacy

Rhythm Racket

In this game, patients will use a virtual, hand-held racket to hit balls to the beat of the music. As they practice their coordination, patients will be intensely focused on game play. Recent evidence has shown that playing a cognitively-demanding game after a traumatic event can reduce the incidence of intrusive trauma memories (Lyadurai et al., 2018).

Use Cases

• Distraction before, during and after procedures
• Reduce feelings of anxiety
• Entertainment for kids and adults
• Reducing intrusive trauma memories