VR Video Games and Reducing Anxiety and Pain

VR video games are more effective at reducing anxiety and pain in patients than passive VR media.

Nature Scientific Reports: Clinical effects of different virtual reality presentation content on anxiety and pain.

The results show that the content of the VR presentation (game play verses no game play) directly affected the level of reduction of anxiety and pain in the study participants.

Video Game content solicited the highest response rates for both anxiety and pain, considerably outperforming natural environmental movie scapes.🔥

Enjoy this well researched, random controlled study by Yoshio Yamashita, Reona Aijima & Atsushi Danjo 

Source

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47764-8