KindVR’s mission is to help patients mitigate pain and stress by developing virtual reality therapies for specific medical procedures and conditions.
We are a research-based company, partnering with leading US and Canadian hospitals. Our goal is to make it easy for hospitals to provide virtual reality therapy to every patient in need.
Today, KindVR has over ten clinical trials underway with leading research hospitals across the US and Canada. KindVR therapy is being tested with patients experiencing mediport access procedures, MRI procedures, emergency room visits, and pre-operative stress. We are the leaders in providing pediatric virtual reality.
Beyond our research, over 70 hospitals are using KindVR therapy routinely with their patients.
KindVR also partners with pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) to improve patient recruitment and retention.
Our Story
KindVR was founded in 2014 by Simon Robertson, a game developer and Child Life Volunteer at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. When he discovered no hospitals were using virtual reality despite 20 years of clinical research on VR's efficacy, he created KindVR to make it easy to provide VR therapy to patients in need.
His key insight was that each VR experience should be developed for a specific hospital procedure or medical condition. Today, all of KindVR's experiences are clinically validated to demonstrate that they are safe and effective. All of KindVR's therapies are developed in-house by the KindVR development team.
Simon with SCD patient at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
Photo provided by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Helping to Educate about Virtual Reality Therapy
In addition to research and supporting hospital programs, KindVR participates in many medical conferences, presenting research findings and conducting demonstrations of VR therapy.
National Medical Association’s Conference at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Washington, DC - September 2018
Cayenne Wellness Center’s 10th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Educational Seminar
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA - September 2018
Virtual Reality & Healthcare Symposium 2018
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA - March 2018
UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium 2018
UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center
San Francisco, CA - February 2018
American Academy of Pediatrics
KindVR provides hundreds of demonstrations of VR therapy at medical conferences across the US. (Photo from AAP2016)
The Association of Child Life Professionals
KindVR supports Child Life Specialists and participates in the annual ACLP Conference. Child Life Specialists participating in our trials share our research results at regional CL conferences.
Academy for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Conference
Academy for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Conference at the Royal College of Physicians
London, UK - October 2016. vid