Travelling on public transport can trigger various fears. For example, travelling alone on a bus to an unfamiliar area is a difficult situation for people with agoraphobia. In the case of social phobias, it tends to be the other passengers who trigger fears. This scenario is suitable for both aspects.

Description of the scenario

When your patient puts on the VR headset and you start the scenario on the computer, your patient will immediately be in a bus right next to the driver.

What is special about this scenario

The bus is computer-generated so that patients can move around freely. However, the landscape outside is real, creating an overall very realistic driving experience. The bus regularly stops at real bus stops and displays these stops on the screen.

The patient has the following possibilities for a high degree of realism:

• Walk through the bus and sit in any seat
• Alternatively, you can also use teleportation to jump directly to these locations
• Of course, look out the window and see a real landscape (green spaces, cars, buildings, people).
• Press the stop button.

The therapist can activate the following actions in this scenario:

• Fade in or out other passengers.
• Optionally, have only teenagers or a mixed group.
• Individual conversations between passengers and the patient.
• The passengers are programmed to establish eye contact automatically when the patient approaches them.