The Challenge
A mental-health and addiction treatment center in Canada needed a way to expose patients to high-stress scenarios — like flying or skydiving — in a controlled, safe setting, while giving clinicians objective physiological data to work with, not just patient self-reporting.
Our Approach
This was built in direct collaboration with clinicians rather than designed independently, since staging each stress point — boarding, freefall, turbulence — needed clinical input to be therapeutically useful rather than just realistic. Real-time heart rate and breathing monitoring were integrated alongside the sensory pod (wind, heat, scent) so the environment and the biometric data stayed in sync, with session data exported in a form clinicians could use afterward.
Key Features
- Full simulated sequences with multiple stages
- Real-time heart rate and breathing monitoring
- Multi-sensory environmental effects (wind, heat, scent) via a sensory pod
- Clinician-facing data export for session analysis
Outcome
Used for clinical exposure therapy, helping patients build coping mechanisms while capturing physiological data for treatment.
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