Design and Evaluation of a Loving Kindness Virtual Reality Meditation Experience

Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is an ancient technique based on generating kind intentions, compassion, and wishes of well-being towards oneself others, while visualizing the target individual those intentions are directed to. Regular LKM practice results in more positive emotions, reduction stress increase emotional processing, feelings compassion empathy. Here, we present our work designing evaluating a Virtual Reality (VR) experience aimed at supporting LKM. Our show that VR increases mindfulness, relaxation, as good audio does. We discuss advantages experience, future work.