Independent research is carried out on our programmes. We use this, coupled with attendee feedback, to continually improve our workshops and VR
"We can’t all go into space but to have this VR experience is so incredibly important. It is so immersive and awe inspiring. This should be available to all leaders of the world to see, because you can only understand the system if you look at it from one layer above it, and that is exactly what this overview experience gives us."
Prof Kate Raworth, University of Oxford, author of Doughnut Economics
Overall feedback from our VR programmes
Participants report having has a profound shift in their awareness. These participants descriptions of the experience are similar to those described by astronauts.
Participants develop a new sense of awareness and a new planetary perspective.
Participants description of their experience include feelings of awe, feelings of being connected to nature and having an expanded personal boundary.
Participants require a period of assimilation after the experience, then they are excited to share and compare their experience.
Independent Research
List of Services
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University of Amsterdam and Free University of AmsterdamList Item 2
A longitudinal study investigating VR and changes in behaviour towards behaving more pro environmentally
p=150
Results under review, early results suggest that a shortened version of the overview effect virtual reality condition with voice over and music, scored significantly higher than all four other conditions in the donation task, suggesting that a shortened version of the VR experience may influence behaviour.
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Goldsmiths University, Humboldt University of Berlin, The University of AgderList Item 3
Can the VR Overview Effect lead to changes in connectedness to nature, to other people and to one-self.
p=60
Awaiting results
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University of StirlingList Item 1
Investigating changes in connectedness to nature
p=30
Results
Found a significant effect in the VR condition
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Manchester MetropolitanList Item 4
Investigating the VR pilot and Awe experience scale.
p=10
Results
Suggest that the experience elicits awe and increases nature connectedness
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Derby University
Investgating compassion of the VR group compared to the control group
p=40
Research tbc
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Deakin University
Investigating heritage based extended reality, details tbc.
