{"id":3289,"date":"2015-04-01T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2015-04-01T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:05:06","slug":"deep-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2015\/04\/deep-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep:  a video game for calm, deep breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/experiencing-deep-the-virtual-reality-game-that-relieves-anxiety-attacks-142?utm_source=vicefbus\"><\/a>&#8220;New methods for treating anxiety, trauma and mental illness are emerging at the intersection of games and therapy.&#8221; &#8211; Laura Hudson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deep_Screenshot_46.98405.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deep_Screenshot_46.98405-300x138.png\" alt=\"Deep (video game) @ http:\/\/owenllharris.com\/deep\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deep_Screenshot_46.98405-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deep_Screenshot_46.98405-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Deep_Screenshot_46.98405.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/owenllharris.com\/deep\/\">Deep<\/a>, a virtual reality game developed for the Oculus Rift, has set out to do just that. It&#8217;s based on the same sort of deep breathing exercises that many anxiety sufferers\u2014and meditation\/yoga enthusiasts\u2014are already familiar with, coupled with immersive visuals and audio that make you feel like you&#8217;re suspended in a dreamy, underwater world. A belt secured around your body senses when you inhale and exhale, causing you to &#8220;rise&#8221; and &#8220;fall&#8221; rhythmically within the water as you explore a &#8220;zen garden&#8221; of coral and colored lights.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Owen Harris had been using breathing exercises to manage his own anxiety for years, and &#8220;when VR arrived&#8230; I knew exactly what I wanted to do: I wanted to build something where at the end of a stressful day I could just go to, and it&#8217;d become my own little isolation tank,&#8221; Harris told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/experiencing-deep-the-virtual-reality-game-that-relieves-anxiety-attacks-142?utm_source=vicefbus\">Vice<\/a>. &#8220;I was building this thing for myself; it never really occurred to me to be showing it to other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/26\/virtual-reality-therapy.html\">Laura Hudson @ Boing Boing<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More likes this, please.  The world could use more tranquility games, peace games, do-good-deeds games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New methods for treating anxiety, trauma and mental illness are emerging at the intersection of games and therapy.&#8221; &#8211; Laura Hudson Deep, a virtual reality game developed for the Oculus Rift, has set out to do just that. It&#8217;s based on the same sort of deep breathing exercises that many anxiety sufferers\u2014and meditation\/yoga enthusiasts\u2014are already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,253,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-mental-health","category-oculus-rift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}