Older woman seated in care wearing virtual reality goggles with a nurse beside her

Health benefits & evidence

Immersive travel for care and comfort.

Cinematic 360 journeys that offer moments of peace, wonder, and connection for people spending time in care.

How it works

A simple setup for each experience.

A Sentio Atlas session is simple to set up. The person wears a VR headset, chooses a journey from the library, and can be supported by a care team member, family member, or facilitator, or experience it quietly on their own where appropriate.

Patient wearing virtual reality goggles in hospital with a clinician nearby VR headset

The person enters the journey through a headset.

The headset lets them look around the destination as if they are inside the place.

Care team member choosing journeys from a tablet beside a VR headset Library access

The team opens the Sentio Atlas library.

A care team can choose calm nature, travel, culture, history, or purpose-led journeys.

VR headset with a tablet and storage drive for streaming or stored access Wi-Fi or storage

Journeys can stream or be stored for easier access.

Programs can use Wi-Fi where available, or stored content where internet access is limited.

Lavender and essential oils for a gentle scent-based sensory experience Sensory extras

Some packages can add smell, sound, or touch.

Optional scent and touch items can make selected journeys feel more immersive.

Published evidence

Evidence-informed, not overclaimed.

These sources support careful use of VR and digital nature as supportive wellbeing, patient-experience, pain-distraction, and rehabilitation tools.

120 patients

Hospital pain distraction.

A randomized hospital trial found larger short-term pain reductions after VR compared with health and wellness television.

PLOS ONE
20 studies

Stress and relaxation.

A 2024 JMIR Mental Health review found VR wellbeing programs can support stress reduction, while noting that stronger studies are still needed.

JMIR Mental Health
190 studies

Rehabilitation engagement.

A Cochrane review found VR may slightly improve arm function, balance, and activity limitation after stroke when used in care programs.

Cochrane
10 studies

Digital nature and stress.

A 2024 review and meta-analysis reported that digital nature exposure can reduce stress, based on 886 participants.

PubMed
19,806 people

Nature and wellbeing.

A large Scientific Reports study linked at least 120 minutes in nature per week with higher self-reported health and wellbeing.

Scientific Reports

Care settings

Supportive VR experiences for care teams and residents.

A session might bring ocean calm into a long treatment day, a familiar street into aged care, a forest walk into recovery, or a purpose-led story to someone who still wants to feel part of the world.

Partnership invitation

We want to work with you.

Sentio Atlas is looking to partner with hospitals, rehabilitation teams, aged care providers, psychologists, wellbeing spaces, and research partners to create safe, beautiful, evidence-informed immersive travel programs.

Together, we can design the right journeys, protect patient comfort, gather meaningful feedback, and build experiences that help people feel calmer, more connected, and less defined by the room they are in.

Start a health partnership

Sentio Atlas is not a medical treatment or substitute for clinical care. Health programs should be designed with qualified providers, consent, safety screening, and evaluation.