Anesthesiologists who practice medical hypnosis can lower the amount of medication needed during procedures. Although the practice accelerates patient recovery and reduces side effects, its adoption remains limited. It is fairly time-consuming and tiring: the anesthesiologist has to focus and talk constantly to their patient during the procedure.
How might we democratize the use of medical hypnosis through Virtual Reality?
In 2018, the founding team of the French startup HypnoVR reached out to me to design and build an MVP for their portal app for Oculus Rift. Working on evenings and weekends, I built a Unity app to allow anesthesiologists to launch, monitor and manage VR hypnosis sessions. From their computer screen, they can now fully control the VR scenarios (developed by outside gaming studios) shown to the patient, and get real-time feedback on what they were seeing.
