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Inner activity

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Inner Activity is a multi-sensory virtual reality experience presented as a physical art installation. It combines interaction design and game technologies, sound healing and vibro-acoustic therapy techniques, physical set design, and concepts from meditation and spirituality. It utilizes the Oculus Rift and the SubPac, a tactile bass system for achieving whole body stimulation through synchronized audiovisual, haptic and olfactory feedback. This experience is a preliminary exploration into potential applications for using immersive virtual reality entertainment in healthcare, therapy and medicine.

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SIGGRAPH '16: ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 VR Village
July 2016
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ISBN:9781450343770
DOI:10.1145/2929490
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  1. multi-sensory
  2. vibro-acoustic therapy
  3. virtual reality

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  • (2024)Still Not a Lot of Research? Re-Examining HCI Research on Religion and SpiritualityExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3651058(1-15)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
  • (2021)Challenges and Opportunities of Immersive Technologies for Mindfulness Meditation: A Systematic ReviewFrontiers in Virtual Reality10.3389/frvir.2021.6446832Online publication date: 27-Apr-2021
  • (2017)Wearable bass tactile sound systems and immersionProceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3152771.3156175(576-580)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2017

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