VR start-up launches new aged care service
MELBOURNE: Aged care entertainment provider SilVR Adventures has launched a new national self-service model for residential care facilities.
Melbourne-based start-up SilVR Adventures began providing tailored immersive virtual reality experiences to groups of aged care residents in Victoria last year.
It involves a SilVR Adventures team member taking equipment to a facility to guide a group session with residents, who wear a VR headset, through one of a range of scenarios, such as exploring the Great Pyramids of Giza, the laneways of Rome, or outer space.
The new self-service offering can provide an aged care facility anywhere in Australia with everything required to run their own unlimited group virtual reality sessions including:
- 10 VR headsets
- software to deliver content to multiple headsets in group format
- access to a library of VR content images, videos and readymade session scripts for the lifestyle team to deliver
- training on all aspects above and ongoing support.
SilVR Adventures CEO Colin Pudsey said the key benefits of the self-service offering were flexibility and value.
