{"id":218889,"date":"2025-07-28T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virtual-reality-nature-scenes-ease-pain-sensitivity-especially-with-strong-sense-of-presence"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:05:12","slug":"virtual-reality-nature-scenes-ease-pain-sensitivity-especially-with-strong-sense-of-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virtual-reality-nature-scenes-ease-pain-sensitivity-especially-with-strong-sense-of-presence","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality nature scenes ease pain sensitivity, especially with strong sense of presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HvsBCN34dKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Immersing in virtual reality (VR) nature scenes helped relieve symptoms that are often seen in people living with long-term pain, with those who felt more present experiencing the strongest effects.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by the University of Exeter, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/10.1097\/j.pain.0000000000003701\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Pain<\/i>, tested the impact of immersive 360-degree nature films delivered using VR compared with 2D video images in reducing the experience of pain, finding VR almost twice as effective.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is titled \u201cImmersion in nature through <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/virtual+reality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virtual reality<\/a> attenuates the development and spread of mechanical secondary hyperalgesia: a role for insulo-thalamic effective connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immersing in virtual reality (VR) nature scenes helped relieve symptoms that are often seen in people living with long-term pain, with those who felt more present experiencing the strongest effects. A new study led by the University of Exeter, published in the journal Pain, tested the impact of immersive 360-degree nature films delivered using VR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}