In fact, nowadays the world of health enjoys the huge contribution offered by the use of virtual reality which most important advantage is the possibility of reducing the existing gap between imagination and reality.
Our vision, according to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in the Sciences and Humanities, is to develop a global and accessible representation of knowledge on virtual reality. It’s allows the free distribution of VR in a open and accessible way.

Despite the huge potential offered, the application of VR to clinical psychology doesn’t enjoy a consolidated success inside the scientific survey, above all for two classes of reasons: the low level of spread of information about the situation of the art of the investigation and its possible future developments and the high costs of the software which turn away even those who are interested in experimenting the use of VR.

In this scenario, the VR therapy takes its place and its aim is to promote the spread of VR in the health world by overcoming the actual existing limits.

The project intends to work in a double direction: to share the knowledge about applications of VR in therapy and to spread freely virtual environments (VE), through specific services.

In order to share knowledge:

– To create a cultural background, accessible to everyone who wants to approach VR, by increasing the spectrum of available information and by pointing out the actual condition of the art of the research.

– To encourage free circulation of knowledge in this field by using the web as a mean of communication, either by helping the user to find the information he needs in a simple and fast way, or by giving the chance of offering personal contribution by playing an active role in the process of knowledge circulation.

– To stimulate cooperative interdisciplinary research, by offering the chance to users from different disciplines of collaborating with us in new research projects.

In order to spread the Virtual Environments:

– To promote the sharing of those technological knowledge that make it possible to use VR and improve the use of the instruments, by making available four recently created virtual environments (supermarket, plaza, subway, elevator) that the user can download and the protocol of use needed to guide users in the applicative experimentations.

– To increase the visibility of the advantages of using VR in therapeutic contexts, by giving the chance to a huge public of consulting and downloading a big variety of reliable and useful articles and books and by giving a list of links to further web sites which can be interesting in the field of application to therapy.