Virtual reality (VR) simulation is now applied commonplace from real estate viewings to digital shopping. New companies have even launched in the past 12 months that offer clinical VR interventions with a synthesis of hardware/software solutions. In this burgeoning area of practice psychologists have yet to catch up with the technological implications and evidence-based ways of testing VR efficacy.
There have been 10,000's papers published on VR and psychotherapy in the past half-decade, and over 1,000 just this year. Yet, robust models and mechanisms to test efficacy are still ongoing development and debate among theorists. There is an exciting opportunity to study the theoretical and experimental aspects of VR in Melbourne-based universities which lead some of the most cutting-edge innovations in the topic of study.