Oxford Science Enterprises’ wellness tech portfolio company, OxfordVR, is to harvester with BehaVR, to connection broad virtual reality-based treatments for intelligence health.
Supported by an archetypal $13 cardinal successful Series B funding, the merger of the 2 integer therapeutic companies volition effect successful the largest VR transportation level for evidence-based integer behaviour therapies.
OxfordVR describes itself arsenic a supplier of evidence-based immersive treatments for superior intelligence wellness unwellness and behavioural health.
Deepak Gopalakrishna, CEO of OxfordVR, said of the merger: “What an breathtaking clip for integer innovation successful intelligence health.
“We’re astatine a captious inflection constituent successful the manufacture wherever the onus volition beryllium connected companies to bring evidence-based, clinically validated treatments to patients that providers, payers, and employers tin confidently basal behind. This brings unneurotic 2 of the starring organisations pioneering this enactment and volition alteration america to accelerate that future.”
The recently combined institution volition beryllium known arsenic BehaVR and volition absorption connected clinically-validated, immersive integer treatments spanning the afloat spectrum of intelligence and behavioural wellness needs.
Each involution volition beryllium tailored to a patient’s unsocial needs. The multi-sensory virtual world experiences volition dainty anxiety, stress, symptom and addiction utilizing real-time biometrics, protocols and instrumentality learning models.
BehaVR volition usage an integrated level to present treatments. The level volition assistance to simplify the diligent experience, alteration clinician oversight and make patient-specific attraction plans and measurable outcomes.
Aaron Gani, BehaVR laminitis and CEO, said: “The request for intelligence wellness services acold outstrips disposable resources. Providers request help, and that assistance is disposable contiguous done our clinically-validated and evidence-based integer programs.
“In bringing unneurotic 2 innovative virtual world therapeutics teams, we are positioned to service the widest scope of diligent populations imaginable astatine a clip of aggravated need.”
In 2020, a societal engagement programmme from OxfordVR designed to assistance patients flooded anxious societal avoidance became disposable via the NHS. The programme uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) wrong an immersive virtual world setting.