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Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review
Nature exposure is known to promote physical and mental health. However, actual nature exposure may be difficult to achieve for the population of people with physical disabilities or chronic conditions. Therefore, many attempts have been made to duplicate nature exposure via media devices, and virtu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34675840 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725288 |
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author | Li, Hansen Zhang, Xing Wang, Hongying Yang, Zongqian Liu, Haowei Cao, Yang Zhang, Guodong |
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description | Nature exposure is known to promote physical and mental health. However, actual nature exposure may be difficult to achieve for the population of people with physical disabilities or chronic conditions. Therefore, many attempts have been made to duplicate nature exposure via media devices, and virtual reality (VR) is deemed as a promising technology due to its advantage in creating a sense of immersion. Generally, current studies suggest that being exposed to virtual nature may contribute to psychological and physiological relaxation. Besides, some pieces of evidence indicate that virtual nature may improve attentional resources, cognitive performance, and pain experience. Although VR is deemed as an advanced media, insufficient evidence was found concerning the advantages of VR over traditional two-dimensional media when it comes to simulated nature exposure. On the other hand, computer-generated (CG) scenarios were found to be more beneficial than 360° videos, and mini-games may be useful in creating an interactive VR format for simulated nature exposure. Further research is needed because of the limited relevant studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-85236682021-10-20 Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review Li, Hansen Zhang, Xing Wang, Hongying Yang, Zongqian Liu, Haowei Cao, Yang Zhang, Guodong Front Psychol Psychology Nature exposure is known to promote physical and mental health. However, actual nature exposure may be difficult to achieve for the population of people with physical disabilities or chronic conditions. Therefore, many attempts have been made to duplicate nature exposure via media devices, and virtual reality (VR) is deemed as a promising technology due to its advantage in creating a sense of immersion. Generally, current studies suggest that being exposed to virtual nature may contribute to psychological and physiological relaxation. Besides, some pieces of evidence indicate that virtual nature may improve attentional resources, cognitive performance, and pain experience. Although VR is deemed as an advanced media, insufficient evidence was found concerning the advantages of VR over traditional two-dimensional media when it comes to simulated nature exposure. On the other hand, computer-generated (CG) scenarios were found to be more beneficial than 360° videos, and mini-games may be useful in creating an interactive VR format for simulated nature exposure. Further research is needed because of the limited relevant studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8523668/ /pubmed/34675840 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725288 Text en Copyright © 2021 Li, Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu, Cao and Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Li, Hansen Zhang, Xing Wang, Hongying Yang, Zongqian Liu, Haowei Cao, Yang Zhang, Guodong Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title | Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title_full | Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title_fullStr | Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title_short | Access to Nature via Virtual Reality: A Mini-Review |
title_sort | access to nature via virtual reality: a mini-review |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34675840 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725288 |
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