VIRTUAL / AUGMENTED REALITY
VRX HEALTH LAUNCHES XAIA ON APPLE VISION PRO , COMBINING SPATIAL COMPUTING AND AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
VRx Health , a company working on pioneering medical extended reality , has announced the launch of Xaia ( eXtended reality Artificially Intelligent Ally ), a first-of-its-kind app combining spatial computing with AI for personalised mental health . Xaia ’ s technology has been exclusively licensed from Cedars-Sinai to VRx Health , to bring immersive AI therapy to the world .
Currently , Xaia is available as an application on Apple Vision Pro headsets . Designed to take advantage of the powerful capabilities of visionOS , Xaia is experienced via spatial computing on Vision Pro and visualised as a human-scale , 3D robot . She has an empathetic and understanding voice , is available 24 / 7 and can support users with any mental health subjects they need help with .
Imagine discussing your aspirations with Xaia and finding yourself on the beach at sunrise , exploring feelings of isolation and suddenly being surrounded by the Northern Lights or doing breathwork and meditation next to a creek-side meadow . Xaia has multi-disciplinary training in areas including cognitive behavioural therapy , supportive talk therapy , motivational interviewing and relapse prevention therapy , among the most common forms of therapy for mental health issues in the US today .
Brennan Spiegel , MD , MSHS , and Omer Liran , MD , are the Co-founders of VRx Health .
“ Today there are 58 million people in the United States struggling with mental illness and our health care systems simply cannot meet up with demand . There ’ s a supply and demand mismatch between the availability of psychotherapists and the overwhelming epidemic of mental distress in America ,” said Dr Spiegel , Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai . �
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