Assessment and Treat Neglect Patients With a VR Application

This training is built for the HMD Pico 4 Enterprise, which has six degrees of freedom, a 4k RGB display, a 101-degree field of view, and built-in eye-tracking hardware and software. The virtual environment is a 3-dimensional immersive environment in which the participant will be placed in three different virtual scenes: a picnic table, a kitchen, and a playground. This allows for the placement of stimuli in three different regions: near peripersonal (reaching) space, far peripersonal space, and extrapersonal (far) space. The goal of the game is to search for items that appear in front of the view, as accurately and quickly as possible.

The conventional treatment consists of a problem-solving approach mainly based on the neurodevelopmental treatment approach. For VSN, the conventional treatment mainly consists of a mix of prism adaptation, visual scanning, and compensatory strategies based on the individual needs of the patient.

During assessments with SpatialSense, participants will sit in a wheelchair or on a straight-back chair. The trunk will be restricted to the chair. Finally, the data will be exported from SpatialSense and analyzed by investigators to define different search strategies while performing scanning tasks.