Comprehensive Assessment of Physiological and Psychological Responses to Virtual Reality Experiences | Journal of Medical Extended Reality
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a technology with huge improvements in the last few years, offering immersive experiences and paving the way for novel applications across various fields. In the medical field, VR is advancing at a notable rate, allowing for new innovations ranging from pain treatment to rehabilitation and showing its potential to reconfigure the brain to modify how our mind perceives our body and environment. The immersive nature of VR can be reflected in people’s physiological and psychological responses, making stress management a key focus to obtain potentially transformative effects as a regulatory stress treatment. This pilot study focuses on a comprehensive assessment, both physiologically and psychologically, of the impact of stressful versus relaxing VR experiences. Our exploratory study examines the effectiveness of this emerging technology in manipulating stress levels in a group of 20 healthy volunteers. In a randomized cross-over design, each subject was
