How does ROVR products benefit in Health Care and Wellbeing?
ROVR VR technologies assist in maintaining healthcare & wellbeing, and can recover, re-enable, re-habilitate people back to high scores in self-assessed wellbeing.
Co-developed with care homes and NHS research on distraction therapies, ROVR VR immersive technologies provide seated and seated active virtual reality (VR) scenes to motivate remarkable examples of social engagement and exercise missing from participant’s usual experience.
ROVR VR products provide immersive experiences, transporting users to a variety of virtual environments, from mountain ranges to beaches, providing rich environments to stimulate memories and recollections, new experiences to chat about for weeks, and motivational immersive places for rewarding social exercise.
Our virtual reality pathway provides physical, emotional, and cognitive therapies, simple enough to use to be minimally assisted or self-accessed and motivational enjoying repeated use, building and maintain health and providing opportunities and choices for many that were once thought lost.
Our customers
Care, Nursing, Assisted Living Homes, Hospice Care, Oncology wards, etc.
ROVR Relieve – seated companionable 360° videos
ROVR Explore – seated active social VR
Outline:
works anywhere
unwitting exercise whilst chatting & exploring with others
seated social real presence experiences with others local or distant
Outline:
works anywhere
for distraction, anxiety relief, escape and memories
seated companionable real presence 360 video experiences
staff & resident Feedback:
”My legs feel it ! (after 3km of walking – usual daily step count 300 steps) ”
”I want to walk further than I did last time (600m first time and 1200m next !)”
”where am I ? (98-yr-old walked 300m straight off – usual 50 daily step count)”
”That’s amazing (87-yr-old in Oxfordshire after 60 mins walking and chatting with a carer in Cornwall and a friend in West Sussex)”
“How far did I go? That’s crazy. This is more exercise than I have done in a long time” 70+ year old after walking 1800m
staff & resident feedback:
“Amazing to go anywhere and see beyond four walls” Resident
“it's amazing to go to places where couldn't normally go” Resident
”She kept telling everybody about it, how she'd been to a waterfall” Staff
”Quite a social thing for them as well. Lots of chatting afterwards” Staff
”feels like I'm there, like it's right in front of me” Resident
”miraculous” Staff speaking about exceptional engagement for a resident who usually cannot stay focused for long
Additional reading
Reclaiming Health: Sir Muir Gray, known for his advocacy of social, mental and physical exercise to help people Live Longer Better has written several brief articles speaking to older people, about Reclaiming Health, Stamina, Strength, Balance, Feeling Happier, how to minimise cognitive decline (Dementia), and the value of Social Exercise.
Muir has some inspiring thoughts for various groups in our ageing society: Relatives, Care Homes, People Living at Home and Residential Retirement Communities