Rooted Growth – A VR Game About Being a Tree
Rooted Growth is a VR game running on Oculus Quest 2 that I created during the 2023 Global Game Jam. The idea of the event was to create a game over the weekend corresponding with …
Future Psychology
Since I’m speaking about our company and psychological technology at the Psychology and Future Perspectives Congress organised by the psychology students’ association of Leiden University, I figured I would jot down some thoughts here as …
Can Virtual Reality Be Used in Therapy? – A Video Review
YouTube Review by Ava Mason Can Virtual Reality Be Used in Therapy? Short answer – yes. Long answer – in several different ways. If you’re not in the mood to scour through several papers on …
What is AR/VR?
A 1-minute Guide Augmented Reality Augmented reality refers to a form of extended reality over what we see. Augmented reality can be displayed with a smartphone for example. The smartphone app recognises a surface or …
The Vastaamo Controversy
A Finnish e-health company has been under scrutiny because their patients’ data was hacked and their users blackmailed by threats of leaking their personal information. Apparently the security measures Vastaamo undertook were insufficient, which is …
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic framework within psychology, with first instances as early as in the 1950s and 1960s (Ellis, 1957; Beck, 1960). It focuses on changing an individual’s cognition and behaviour through a …