Virtual Reality for Therapy

The ZEST-VR system is a therapist focused version of the proven HVSImage research system developed by the same team and contains a large selection of hyper-realistic real-world environments which therapists can use and modify in rehabilitation and therapy.

A hyper-realistic world – some users often complained about coming back to the real world and some have found the quality of real-life poor and lacking compared with ZEST VRs world

Section: What ZEST VR does
ZEST VR supports clinicians delivering CBT, exposure and skills-based therapy for adults with anxiety and comorbid depressive symptoms. Sessions are clinician-supervised and follow structured CBT/ACT-informed protocols with adaptive scenarios. Physiological and patient-reported signals help personalize session pacing and content.

Safety

A safety-gate continuously monitors objective signals and context. Acceptance criterion: false-negative rate ≤ 5% with instantaneous clinician override. ZEST VR does not replace clinical judgment or provide autonomous psychotherapy.

What we do not claim

We do not claim fixed remission rates (e.g., “90%+ in 12 sessions”) or system-level cost savings at this stage. Outcomes, adherence, and clinician-time metrics are measured prospectively per protocol.

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Therapists can choose from a range of packages in order to use Zest VR in ways that suit their clients best:

3) Technology

VR exposure modules + CBT/ACT task flow
EEG/physiological sensing and analytics
Clinician dashboard, alerts, instant override
Security & privacy: access controls, audit logging, encryption; DPIA and MDR technical documentation in progress.

Note:
Grant funding de-risks evidence and regulatory readiness from TRL7 to TRL8; TRL9 commercialization is equity-financed.

4) Safety & Risk Management

Headline: Safety-first, clinician-in-the-loop

Safety gate performance target: false-negative ≤ 5% with <1 s override availability.
Intensity titration, motion-sickness minimization, escalation pathways.
Ongoing monitoring, adverse-event reporting per protocol.

Disclaimer (small print):
ZEST VR is used only under professional supervision in clinical settings. It is not a replacement for licensed clinical care and is not offered for home use.

Biofeedback.

With our biofeedback modules what happens in a session can be adjusted automatically according to the client’s changing mental or emotional state, as indicated by their physiological responses such as brain waves, sweat or heart rate.

Exposure therapy.

You can allow clients to control what they expose themselves to, using staged experiences where the client can explore an environment and choose, for example, how close to go to a stimulus, or whether to move from a more comfortable situation to a less comfortable one. If preferred, if used with the biofeedback modules you can set the options presented to the client to vary according to biofeedback – e.g. if the client is relaxed at one level, the system presents the option for them to move on to a less comfortable level, but if the client is stressed at a certain level you may present the option for them to move to a more comfortable level. Alternatively, it can take the client to different levels of comfort automatically according to biofeedback, or conversely set things can be set to happen at set times. If used with a therapist present then if preferred the therapist can control whether and when the experience becomes more or less comfortable.