Virtual Reality Medical Center (VRMC), founded in 2001, currently uses virtual reality exposure therapy (3-dimensional computer simulations) in combination with physiological monitoring and visual feedback (biofeedback) to provide research and consultation services on stress, burnout, acute and chronic pain, trauma, panic, phobias and anxiety disorders. These conditions include specific phobias such as fear of flying, driving, public speaking, agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Virtual reality exposure therapy places the client in a computer-generated world where they “experience” the various stimuli related to their phobia. The client wears a head-mounted display with small TV monitors and stereo earphones to receive both visual and auditory cues. https://www.vrphobia.com
Our affiliated 501c3 non-profit, Interactive Media Institute (IMI) also serves on grants as a Dissemination and Exploitation Workpackage Leader and as a Clinical and Marketing Trial partner. To disseminate results, IMI uses a Combined Communications Platform of an annual international conference (now in its 26th year), specialized workshops, APA-accredited clinician training courses, a peer-reviewed scientific journal and a website information portal as tools to inform and educate the general public, policymakers, funding agents, industry and academia.
VRMC maintains its headquarters in San Diego, California and has worked internationally in Europe and Asia since the early 2000s. Having been involved in R&D projects in the U.S., Europe and Asia for the past 25 years, the principals of VRMC have won over 60 competitive government contracts and are now actively involved in marketing the developed products and protocols. (https://www.vrphobia.com, https://www.vrphobia.eu, https://www.interactivemediainstitute.com)