Dealing with claustrophobia using virtual reality Available to Purchase

Claustrophobia - the fear of confined spaces is one of the most common phobias. It can be treated by many ways. Among all those, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is the most widely used. The goal of this project is to treat Claustrophobia by VRET. It is done by placing the users in non-dangerous and user-friendly virtual environments. Those environments would provoke their Claustrophobic fear making them to overcome it. It is based on the ideology that the more you are exposed to what fears you, the less you will feel it. Different virtual environments like living room, bedroom, kitchen, restroom with various factors like tidiness and messiness, space wideness and narrowness, colour and brightness have been studied. The users can locomote inside the virtual environments by teleportation. It is achieved by gaze - based interactions which do not cause nausea so badly. The project is deployed as an app. The app can be viewed in a cheap, affordable and efficient way using Google Cardboard.