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Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive technology capable of creating a powerful, perceptual illusion of being present in a virtual environment. VR technology has been used in cognitive behavior therapy since the 1990s and accumulated an impressive evidence base, yet with the recent release of consumer VR platforms came a true paradigm shift in the capabilities and scalability of VR for mental health. This narrative review summarizes the past, present, and future of the field, including milestone studies and discussions on the clinical potential of alternative embodiment, gamification, avatar therapists, virtual gatherings, immersive storytelling, and more. Although the future is hard to predict, clinical VR has and will continue to be inherently intertwined with what are now rapid developments in technology, presenting both challenges and exciting opportunities to do what is not possible in the real world.
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This narrative review summarizes the past, present, and future of virtual reality cognitive behavior therapy (VR-CBT), focusing mainly on anxiety disorders. It argues that consumer VR has created a paradigm shift, with automated VR treatments showing strong symptom reductions and growing potential for scalable mental health interventions.
Key findings
- By 2012, k = 21 randomized controlled trials of VR exposure therapy for anxiety disorders were available for meta-analysis, showing that VR exposure outperformed waitlist controls, had similar outcomes to other evidence-based interventions, and had stable long-term effects (Opriş et al. 2012).
- A 2015 meta-analysis found that previously reported within- and between-group effect sizes remained when only trials with in vivo behavioral outcomes were considered, indicating that fear reductions in VR translate to reduced fear in vivo (Morina et al. 2015).
- A 2014 meta-analysis reported an overall significant correlation of r = .28 (95% CI: 0.18–0.38) between self-reported distress and presence during exposure, with significant differences across sample clinical characteristics and VR equipment type (Ling et al. 2014).
- Recent automated VR exposure trials for acrophobia and spider phobia report impressive symptom reductions; one spider phobia trial examined non-inferiority against gold-standard in vivo exposure (Miloff et al. 2019). Adoption remains limited: Steam data in spring 2020 showed around 2% of active users had VR access, roughly 2 million users; Sony reported more than five million PlayStation VR units sold by end of 2019; at least twenty million VR units were distributed worldwide, possibly twice that.
Methods
- Narrative review, not a systematic review or meta-analysis, providing a historical overview and context for VR-CBT and how technology developments have fueled clinical progress.
- Focuses on VR-CBT treatments for anxiety disorders because this application dominates the literature, while also discussing other clinical applications.
- Covers the past (roughly 1968–2013), present (2014–2020), and future, synthesizing milestone studies, meta-analyses, randomized trials, surveys, and technology developments rather than collecting primary data.
Limitations
- The author states the aim is not to provide a systematic review or meta-analysis, the focus is on anxiety disorders, and coverage of VR as an experimental platform for psychopathology and treatment mechanisms is beyond scope.
- The text makes evident that the review is non-exhaustive and selective, and that future-oriented sections are predictions based on gaps, trends, and recent advances rather than demonstrated outcomes.
- The author reports involvement in academia-industry collaborations related to the work, including direct financial reimbursement for consulting for Mimerse, though holds no financial stake in any such company.
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“Interestingly enough, all three automated VR exposure applications mentioned above opted to include a virtual therapist of some sort (Donker et al. 2019;Freeman et al. 2018;Miloff et al. 2019), either voiceover or as an embodied agent.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Virtual Therapists
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- Supportedcites Donker et al. 2019 source
The Intervention: VR-CBT App section says Donker et al.'s application used a voice-over provided by a virtual therapist. This supports the part of the three-application statement attributed to Donker et al.; the other applications have separate citations. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Supportedcites Freeman et al. 2018 source
The Introduction says the study programmed a virtual coach to act as the therapist in VR. Methods > Procedures describes that coach as animated from an actor’s motion capture and voiced by the same person, supporting the citing sentence’s description of Freeman et al.’s application. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“A 2014 meta-analysis reported an overall significant correlation of r = .28(95% CI: 0.18-0.38)between self-reported distress and presence during exposure”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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“VR exposure therapy outperformed waitlist control conditions”
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“and had stable long-term effects (Opriş et al. 2012).”
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“Internetadministered CBT (iCBT), which enjoys a robust evidence base with demonstrated efficacy equivalent to face-to-face treatments for mental disorders and psychosomatic conditions (Carlbring et al. 2018)”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Introduction
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“albeit with significant differences across sample clinical characteristics and type of VR equipment used (Ling et al. 2014).”
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“revealing that fear reductions in VR does indeed translate to reduced fear also in vivo (Morina et al. 2015).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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“and is now implemented in routine care in many countries (Titov et al. 2018).”
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“By 2012, there were k = 21 randomized controlled trials of VR exposure therapy for anxiety disorders available for meta-analysis”
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“had similar outcomes to other evidence-based interventions”
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“and associated with low rates of deterioration (Fernández-Álvarez et al. 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Beyond Efficacy: Demonstrating Effectiveness
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“Two later survey studies found that clinicians have a generally favorable view of using VR clinically”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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- Not checked yetcites Schwartzman et al. 2012 source
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“a VR fullbody illusion has been shown to decrease body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa (Keizer et al. 2016).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Embodiment
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“Recent advances in this field include a large, ongoing randomized controlled trial of automated VR-CBT for anxious avoidance of social situations among patients with psychosis (Freeman et al. 2019;Lambe et al. 2020).”
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“Compared to a scripted control condition, participants engaged in embodied self-dialogue reported being helped and changed to a greater degree (Slater et al. 2019).”
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“To the author's knowledge, only a single effectiveness trial of VR exposure therapy has been published to date”
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- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2020a
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“Together, the first three studies provided early evidence that there were no substantial human barriers to implementing VR interventions in regular clinical settings-a quest that endured into the period of modern VR.”
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“A 2007 study on VR exposure for aviophobia found that while presence partially mediated the association between pre-existing anxiety and distress during exposure”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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- Not checked yetcites Price and Anderson 2007 source
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“Early research examined working alliance towards the virtual environment itself, finding psychometric properties that suggest that the alliance concept can indeed be applied in this way (Miragall et al. 2015).”
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“qualitative research has shown gamification elements are indeed perceived as attractive features by users”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Automated Treatments
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- Not checked yetcites Faric et al. 2019a
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“presence did not moderate outcomes”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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“More recently, a VR body swap illusion has been used to increase self-compassion (Cebolla et al. 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Embodiment
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“showing that a relationship similar to a working alliance does seem to form with the virtual therapist”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Virtual Therapists
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“In the case of VR exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, more than a dozen efficacy trials conducted over 20 years have convincingly shown that this intervention is efficacious (Carl et al. 2019;Fodor et al. 2018;Wechsler et al. 2019)”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Beyond Efficacy: Demonstrating Effectiveness
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“Automated VR interventions distributed as applications on ordinary digital marketplaces have the potential to reach tens or hundreds of thousands of users (Lindner et al. 2019c)”
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“Recent survey research, conducted after the advent of consumer VR, indicates that these fears have now decreased”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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“Since the virtual environment is built from scratch, it can be made fully controllable, flexible, adaptive, and interactive in ways not practically feasible or even possible in the real world.”
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“and that the quality of this relationship predicted long-term improvements (Miloff et al. 2020).”
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“a 2004 study on acrophobia exposure experimentally assigned participants to experiencing VR exposure with either a low-presence HMD or a high-presence CAVE, and despite finding the expected difference in presence scores, the groups did not differ on outcomes (although it should be noted that this contrast was low powered) (Krijn et al. 2004).”
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“Qualitative interview research on the same VR intervention for spider phobia showed that the virtual therapist was an appreciated feature (Lindner et al. 2020c).”
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“Empirical evidence for the presumed effects is however surprisingly scarce (Fleming et al. 2017;Johnson et al. 2016).”
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“All three trials report impressive symptom reductions”
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“Findings from the first qualitative study on automated VR exposure therapy showed that even aversive experiences like exposure therapy can indeed be framed and viewed by users as a serious game with a psychotherapeutic goal (Lindner et al. 2020c).”
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“It should however be noted that meta-analytic research has found no correlation between study quality and observed effect size (McCann et al. 2014).”
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“Until the average consumer VR HMDs includes proper eye tracking technology-already available in some high-grade consumer HMDs-head rotation appears to be a valuable proxy measure that can be put to greater use.”
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“In general, head rotation data has seen very few published clinical applications beyond its immediate role in graphical presentation”
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“If one includes simpler Cardboard-based VR HMDs that require a smartphone to run and offers only a rudimentary VR experience, there are at least twenty million VR units distributed worldwide, possibly twice that.”
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“The lack of large, multi-arm effectiveness trials presents a substantial gap in the extant literature”
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“However, clinical applications of social VR have thus far been scarce.”
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“Research on consumer smartphone applications for mental health (Larsen et al. 2019;Shen et al. 2015) suggests that few future consumer VR applications that will be released on ordinary digital marketplaces can be expected to be evidence-based and effective.”
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“meta-analytic research has revealed low rates of deterioration in VR exposure therapy (Fernández-Álvarez et al. 2019)”
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“Releasing mental health interventions, packaged as applications, on ordinary VR content marketplaces would allow dissemination on an almost unprecedented scale.”
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“Even in the early days of consumer VR, a first-generation VR relaxation application reached 40,000 unique users in 2 years (Lindner et al. 2019c)”
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“VR however is inherently well suited for the use of placebo interventions: therapeutic techniques may be packaged in non-traditional ways (e.g., as serious games) and the occurrence and precise extent of each component can easily be modified.”
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In the paper
“Many previously studied VR paradigms have included features that allowed the user to customize the environment to fit their therapeutic needs, including the “Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan” paradigm developed for PTSD treatment that allowed users to recreate specific traumatic scenarios (Rizzo et al. 2010).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Rizzo et al. 2010 source
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In the paper
“Costs in acquiring and maintaining the equipment, as well as those relating to the logistics of distributing it, may simply outweigh the benefits it brings.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
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In the paper
“While this approach does indeed offer an innovative solution to a clear clinical need, the lack of interest thus far among ordinary clinics demonstrates that it also comes with potent barriers.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
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In the paper
“Still, until VR mass adoption by consumers, the dissemination potential is limited by the overlap of early adopters, those experiencing mental health problems, and those that view this medium as appropriate for help-seeking.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
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- Rests on an assumption: Consumer VR will achieve mass adoption.
In the paper
“A rare 2016 study demonstrated the value of this data by showing that horizontal rotation during VR exposure for public speaking anxiety correlated with distress in female participants (Won et al. 2016).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Won et al. 2016
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In the paper
“Research on VR biofeedback paradigm (Fominykh et al. 2017) have demonstrated the feasibility of including such adaptive components”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Fominykh et al. 2017
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In the paper
“The comparably low adoption rate also hinders some promising clinical applications, e.g., having a patient perform VR exposure tasks in-between in-vivo exposure sessions or completely by themselves using an automated intervention.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
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In the paper
“and trials have already begun (Miloff et al. 2019) to include and report results from broader measures of negative effects used elsewhere in psychotherapy research (Rozental et al. 2016).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
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In the paper
“A study on (360° video) VR relaxation found a strong correlation between averages preference rating of different virtual nature environments and average improvement in positive mood (Gao et al. 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Gao et al. 2019 source
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In the paper
“VR technology has been used in cognitive behavior therapy since the 1990s and accumulated an impressive evidence base”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Abstract
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In the paper
“yet with the recent release of consumer VR platforms came a true paradigm shift in the capabilities and scalability of VR for mental health.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Abstract
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In the paper
“additionally solves practical issues in providing exposure therapy: there is no need to leave the therapy room, either to perform exposure exercises or prepare stimuli material in advance.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
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In the paper
“suggesting that presence is a necessary but insufficient requirement for symptom reduction (Price and Anderson 2007), congruent with the 2004 study.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Price and Anderson 2007 source
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In the paper
“revealing the public health and clinical potential of this innovative approach to treatment.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Automated Treatments
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“One early study reported that nine out of ten spider-fearful individuals would prefer VR exposure over in vivo exposure (Garcia-Palacios et al. 2001)”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Garcia-Palacios et al. 2001 source
hedged- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“although it demonstrated feasibility and replicated the effect size from the preceding efficacy trial, the sample size was relatively small and for ethical and practical reasons, a single-case design was chosen instead of comparison with treatment-as-usual (Lindner et al. 2020a).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Beyond Efficacy: Demonstrating Effectiveness
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2020a
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It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Three high-quality randomized trials have been published recently, featuring three different applications: two on acrophobia with comparison against waiting-list (Donker et al. 2019;Freeman et al. 2018) and one on spider phobia examining non-inferiority against gold-standard in vivo exposure (Miloff et al. 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Automated Treatments
What the sources say
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“although display properties in themselves also play a role (Saredakis et al. 2020).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Saredakis et al. 2020
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In the paper
“symptoms resembling motion sickness believed to be caused primarily by sensory conflict between the visual and vestibular/proprioceptor systems”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Rebenitsch and Owen 2016 source
- Not checked yetcites Saredakis et al. 2020
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In the paper
“although they also reported fears about required training, handling the equipment and, financial costs, and reported an overall low degree of acquaintance with the technology (Schwartzman et al. 2012;Segal et al. 2011).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Schwartzman et al. 2012 source
- Not checked yetcites Segal et al. 2011
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“although both professional and even recreational experiences of using VR were still rare, and knowledge of VR exposure therapy still low (Lindner et al. 2019d).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > The Past
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2019d
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In the paper
“In another recent study, participants practiced delivering compassion in one virtual body and then experienced a recorded version of this act embodied as the receiving party, leading to reduced depression and self-criticism and increased self-compassion (Falconer et al. 2016).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Embodiment
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Falconer et al. 2016 source
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In the paper
“This includes the possibility of using VR head rotation data as a proxy measure of other physiological variables like heart rate that indicate emotional distress, proof-of-concept of which has already been demonstrated (Noori et al. 2019) and is possible with related methods (Lomaliza and Park 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Noori et al. 2019 source
- Not checked yetcites Lomaliza and Park 2019
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In the paper
“By comparison, approximately half of the world's population is now estimated to have access to a smartphone.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
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In the paper
“The choice of control condition is a long-standing debate and multifaceted issue in psychotherapy research, with placebo interventions remaining the gold-standard despite being hard to implement in research on traditional psychotherapy (Gold et al. 2017).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Gold et al. 2017 source
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In the paper
“The advent of modern consumer VR has resolved most of the logistic barriers to running larger clinical trials (but see below), as reflected in the larger sample sizes found in recent studies (Donker et al. 2019;Freeman et al. 2018;Miloff et al. 2019).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Patients, in turn, are also likely to have markedly fewer preconceptions of what constitutes a VR psychological treatment, offering good grounds for (double) blinding.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Rests on an assumption: Patients have markedly fewer preconceptions of what constitutes a VR psychological treatment.
In the paper
“Concerns have been raised about research quality of trials examining VR exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, primarily the reliance on small samples, and no or questionable control conditions (Page and Coxon 2016).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Page and Coxon 2016 source
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
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In the paper
“The fact that modern consumer VR is primarily marketed, and used, as an entertainment platform”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Therapeutic Storytelling
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In the paper
“Although there is some preliminary, indirect research in support of this approach (Shin 2018), therapeutic effects on psychopathology have yet to be demonstrated.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Therapeutic Storytelling
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Shin 2018 source
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In the paper
“VR has a long history of studying negative effects in the form of cybersickness (Rebenitsch and Owen 2016)”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Rebenitsch and Owen 2016 source
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“At the end of 2019, Sony confirmed having sold more than five million units of their Playstation VR device.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“One recent study compared exposure to standardized catastrophic scenarios in VR, to imaginal exposure with personalized scenarios, and found no difference in evoked anxiety (Guitard et al. 2019), suggesting that perfect tailoring is at least not necessary.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Guitard et al. 2019 source
hedged- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“A review article from 1996 on “VR psychotherapy” made a number of interesting predictions on the future of the field: while some predictions did turn out true, most ultimately did not (Glantz et al. 1996).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Conclusions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Glantz et al. 1996 source
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In the paper
“Recent survey research suggests that ordinary clinicians do continue to see certain risks in using VR in therapy, although positive views outweigh negative (Lindner et al. 2019d).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2019d
hedged- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“since so-called sandbox-type paradigms require additional developmental resources, which may not be costeffective in relation to efficacy.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“privacy concerns have already been raised (Slater et al. 2020;Spiegel 2018) and must continue to be discussed within clinical research”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“with a recent systematic review identifying k = 152 studies investigating different factors of importance (Oh et al. 2018).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Social VR
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Oh et al. 2018
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In the paper
“The field of VR-CBT is expanding rapidly with new publications every week”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Conclusions
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In the paper
“This question has however received surprisingly little research attention thus far.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
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A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“The small sample sizes that characterized early (and to a lesser degree, also current) research is not unexpected given the added practical requirements in providing VR treatment, at least with the previous generation of technology”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The recent release of consumer VR platforms constitutes a true paradigm shift in the development and dissemination of clinical VR”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Conclusions
boosteddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Widespread reports of difficulties in implementing exposure therapy for PTSD in clinical settings (Waller and Turner 2016), for example, stress the importance of considering therapist views in efforts to disseminate new treatments.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Waller and Turner 2016 source
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In the paper
“In fact, human-computer interaction research has shown that head rotation provides an adequate proxy measure of eye gaze: gaze tends to focus around a rotation-controlled crosshair, and gaze shifts above 25° are typically accompanied by subsequent head movement with a lag of 30-150 ms (Sidenmark and Gellersen 2020).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Sidenmark and Gellersen 2020 source
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“so-called creative bibliotherapy-patient reading selected works of fiction, as opposed to self-help material-has a long history yet has received very little research attention (Troscianko 2018) and can therefore not currently be considered an evidencebased treatment.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Therapeutic Storytelling
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- Not checked yetcites Troscianko 2018 source
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“Arguably, clinical researchers have only begun to scratch the surface of the clinical potential of virtual embodiment, especially with regard to how such experiences can be merged with traditional, evidence-based CBT techniques.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Novel Uses of Virtual Embodiment
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In the paper
“Despite VR now being an accessible and affordable consumer product (Lindner et al. 2017), mass adoption has yet to occur and growth remains linear rather than exponential, hindering the full public health and clinical potential of VR.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2017 source
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“However, since the expected effect sizes in these studies were large (as with in vivo exposure therapy), even smaller trials may nonetheless have been well powered; further, the fact that VR allows for a greater, even full degree of standardization should decrease outcome variance and thereby sample size requirement (Lindner et al. 2020b).”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Raising Research Quality
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- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2020b
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It may state two separate claims as one.
- Rests on an assumption: The expected effect sizes in VR exposure studies were large.
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In the paper
“6DOF technology, although not new but now much more userfriendly, remains underutilized in clinical VR, in particular as core clinical components.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
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In the paper
“While research has begun to collect and analyze user engagement metrics and selfreported data from self-guided VR interventions (Donker et al. 2020), there has been surprisingly little research on data that offers deeper insight.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Full Immersion Through Innovative User Interfaces and Making Use of This Data
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Donker et al. 2020
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In the paper
“publically released hardware statistics from the Steam gaming platform in spring 2020 revealed that around 2% of the platform's active user base has access to VR, equivalent to roughly 2 million users.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“In the first effectiveness trial of VR exposure therapy in routine care, the clinic was reimbursed either through existing occupational healthcare contracts or the patients payed out-ofpocket (Lindner et al. 2020a), in no case with any additional cost included to cover the clinics investment in VR.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Still Awaiting Mass Adoption by Consumers
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lindner et al. 2020a
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Social VR is growing increasingly popular”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > Social VR
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
The paper relies on this without support.
VR exposure is always safer than in vivo equivalent exposure.
“Further, VR exposure will always be safer than in vivo equivalent exposure”
The paper relies on this without support.
Consumer VR will achieve mass adoption.
“VR and other mixed reality technologies are still awaiting mass adoption, but when this does happen, there will already be a firm evidence base to inform the next generation of VR interventions for mental health.”
The paper relies on this without support.
VR technology will continue to develop rapidly.
“The future of VR-CBT will continue to be inherently intertwined with the development of VR technology, yet the latter now develops at a pace so rapid that clinical researchers are struggling to keep up”
The paper relies on this without support.
The expected effect sizes in VR exposure studies were large.
“since the expected effect sizes in these studies were large (as with in vivo exposure therapy), even smaller trials may nonetheless have been well powered”
The paper relies on this without support.
Patients have markedly fewer preconceptions of what constitutes a VR psychological treatment.
“Patients, in turn, are also likely to have markedly fewer preconceptions of what constitutes a VR psychological treatment, offering good grounds for (double) blinding.”
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“However, relatively limited research has explored the potential therapeutic applications of VR beyond exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approaches, and research in youth is highly limited [2,5,6,16].”
From A Virtual Reality–Based Cognitive Defusion Application for Youth Depression and Anxiety: Mixed Methods Experimental Study. (2025) · cites this paper as [16]
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“Most of this research has focused on VR-based cognitive behavioral treatments (VR-CBTs) [16].”
From A Virtual Reality–Based Cognitive Defusion Application for Youth Depression and Anxiety: Mixed Methods Experimental Study. (2025) · cites this paper as [16]
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“Ellipsis Health is an ML-based mobile app that detects depression using speech analysis of smartphone audio, which can be easily recorded and transmitted, potentially allowing accessible screening and monitoring of depression.”
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§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > References
“11. Carl, E., Stein, T., A., Levihn-Coon, A., Pogue, J. R., Rothbaum, B., Emmelkamp, P., et al. (2018). Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.003.”
§ Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy > References
“12. Carl, E., Stein, A. T., Levihn-Coon, A., Pogue, J. R., Rothbaum, B., Emmelkamp, P., et al. (2019). Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 61, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.003.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lindner, P.
- Affiliations
- Region Stockholm (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Lindner, Philip
- ORCID
- Lindner, Philip
- Venue
- International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
- Published
- 2020-10-20
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 23-46
- ISSN
- 1937-1209 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-1217
- OpenAlex
- W3093847664
- Semantic Scholar
- f6bc7da21bcb63e0a542b5762a0a47d2df138d1b
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 136
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 7.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Cognitive Therapy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Karolinska Institutet
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- virtual reality, cognitive behavioral therapy, immersive technologies, embodiment, gamification, immersive storytelling, psychotherapy
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