360° Nature Environments for Patient Wellbeing
Professionally produced 360° nature videos for VR-based relaxation in clinical settings, ready to deploy, royalty-free licensed, no production effort required.
Anxiety and Discomfort Are Part of Clinical Care
Waiting for a procedure, lying still during imaging, sitting through a long infusion. Clinical environments place patients under stress, and that stress has clinical consequences. Anxiety raises perceived pain, complicates procedures, and shapes how patients remember their care.
Non-pharmacological options to ease that burden are increasingly valuable, both for patient comfort and as part of a measured response to over-reliance on medication. Calm, immersive nature is one such option, low-threshold, drug-free, and easy to offer at the bedside or in shared spaces.
Why Immersive 360° Nature Works in Clinical Settings
A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows that immersive 360° nature reduces pain, anxiety and stress across clinical and patient populations, often within short sessions.
reduction in reported pain among hospitalised inpatients in a randomised controlled trial (N=103), where real 360° video performed on par with computer-generated VR.1
Effect size by which patients rated real 360° video as more positive and realistic than computer-generated VR in the same trial (p = 0.002).1
Participants in a study where the same 360° nature video was rated significantly more relaxing in a VR headset than on a flat screen, lowering physiological stress.2
The referenced studies are part of a growing body of research on VR-based relaxation and nature exposure. For more, browse our curated collection of research summaries:
Browse research article summaries →Two Common Ways to Deploy in Care Settings
Depending on your setting, patients and objectives, immersive nature can be delivered in two ways. Both have distinct strengths, and we can help you decide which fits your situation.
Bedside and In-Procedure Headset
A patient puts on a VR headset and is taken into a calm natural environment during a procedure, an infusion, pre-operative waiting or recovery.
- Full immersion, with visual distance from the clinical room
- Targeted relief for anxiety and procedural distress
- Flexible, works at the bedside with no fixed installation
- Scalable, add headsets as demand grows
- Effective in sessions as short as 5 to 15 minutes
Shared and Ambient Spaces
Large-format projection or screens bring nature into waiting rooms, treatment rooms and day rooms as a shared calming environment.
- No headset required, accessible to every patient and visitor
- Serves several people at once
- Requires dedicated space and AV infrastructure
- Lower immersion than a headset
- Best as an ambient environment, not a targeted intervention
Sample Scenes from Our Catalogue
All content is shot on location across more than 15 countries, from Provence and the Norwegian Arctic to the Australian outback and beyond. Nothing is computer-generated, rendered or composited. What your patients see is real.
From Concept to Calmer Patients in Three Steps
Define your setup
We help you weigh the options, headsets at the bedside, projection in shared spaces, or a combination, and advise on content selection based on evidence and your objectives.
License your content
Choose from our catalogue of 500+ nature scenes across 15+ countries. All content is professionally produced on location, with natural ambient sound. Simple royalty-free B2B licensing.
Implement the solution
Hardware procurement, room design and software integration are handled by your team or an external partner. If you need support, we can connect you with experienced agencies.
Ready-to-Use Professional Content
We provide the immersive nature content, professionally produced, licensed and delivered. Hardware, setup and software integration are handled by your organisation or an implementation partner we can recommend.
Interested in Bringing Calm to Your Patients?
We are happy to discuss your requirements, recommend content for your use case, and provide preview access to our catalogue.
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- Powers MB, Carl E, Levihn-Coon A, et al. (2021). Nonpharmacologic pain management among hospitalized inpatients: a randomized waitlist-controlled trial of standard virtual reality versus video capture virtual reality. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 37(9), 678-687. doi.org
- Knaust T, Felnhofer A, Kothgassner OD, et al. (2022). Exposure to virtual nature: the impact of different immersion levels on skin conductance level, heart rate, and perceived relaxation. Virtual Reality, 26, 925-938. doi.org