Every Monday night there is a meditation night at VRcadia in London that runs from 8:30-10:00 at night. The hour and a half long session is broken up into multiple different meditations. There is breathing meditation they have a part for body meditation and even something called exploration of space mediation. With using Virtual Reality to meditate can be very different from regular mediation but at the same time is a lot more advanced and allows you to experience many ways of doing it.
This has always been something that the manager of VRcadia Daniel Kharlas has always wanted to do he said, “I always wanted to experiment with VR and meditation and then I ended up creating one in VR before opening this place so we already had lots of ideas about it.”
Virtual Reality and mediation could be a very big thing. People that do meditation now can use it to improve their work and expand, or for someone that has maybe never tried meditation before it can be a way for them to see if they would enjoy doing it and what type they like. The hopes that Daniel and VRcadia has is that when this is more affordable for the average person to have in their house then everyone could start using this mediation at home as well if they had the VR headset.
Daniel said, “The last 30 minutes of the session or so is a nature exploration, so it’s fully guided by your own goals and you might want to be in a forest or in space or in underwater, whatever is your safe guided meditation space you want to create and then you actually of control of what your doing so you can plant trees, or put butterflies there and that creates your meditation space.”
Meditation using VR could end up becoming a very big thing if it continues to grow how it is now. The fact that it is so controlled in what each person specifically wants to do for themselves makes it a more involved and intriguing experience for people. It is said that using VR to meditate is more stimulating then the average meditation session. When VR is in more households, I feel like this will be a very popular thing.
