Research

About

Virtual reality (VR) has shown potential to assist in a range of health and wellness initiatives, having shown benefit for anxiety, PTSD, and intellectual disabilities. With Evenness, the world’s first Virtual Sensory room, VR also has the potential to revolutionize the implementation of sensory rooms. The technology overcomes many limitations of physical spaces, allowing users to access at their leisure in a range of environments, and offering new potential to customize the experience. 

Initial Findings

Devika has supported a scientific study of Evenness with an aim to understand the benefits to users with special needs and their carers. With assistance of leading Occupational Therapy clinical academics from Western Sydney University, this study has collected data from over 30 participants organized by The Disability Trust with a wide range of conditions.

Preliminary results have shown that Evenness is generally broadly accepted and desired, with many participants returning to use months after the first experience. Our target is to showcase that Evenness can improve the health and wellbeing for users with special needs, particularly to relieve user stress and anxiety.

Next Steps

We are continuing the research to collect user and carer insights over multiple time points to explicitly investigate impacts of continued usage. We aim to present findings to the community and set the stage for engagement for years to come!​