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The study was supported by AppliedVR and used its system for treating chronic lower-back pain. The tool received FDA De Novo clearance last year.
However, researchers found that participants' tendencies toward anxiety or pain catastrophizing affected which intervention worked better.
Its BCI solutions can be used by mental health professionals to directly access patients' EEG data.
Cofounder and CEO Matthew Stoudt discusses AppliedVR's De Novo clearance from November, what's next for the company and the biggest trends from 2021.
The research targets people with complex regional pain syndrome, post-stroke pain, and other pain-induced conditions.
The training programme was first developed in 2017 by an Australian cardiologist together with Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
The InVisionOS officially received the clearance earlier this month and will be available in early 2022.
The news comes about a week after AppliedVR announced it raised $36 million in Series B funding.
The Series B brings the company’s total raise to $71 million.
The platform can capture a 360-view of a live medical procedure, a record of which is later stored in a cloud server.