Rejuvenating through pixels: the restorative benefits of virtual landscape settings / Alif Haikal Azrulazmi and Nor Izana Mohd Shobri

Virtual landscape settings may assist persons by exposing them to landscape healing (video). Such immersion has been shown to have therapeutic effects such as enhanced positive affect, decreased negative affect, and decreased stress. In the current experiment, we examined whether immersion in a computer generated nature setting can produce restorative effects. There were 40 participants was invited to be a volunteer for this study. After that, participants will go through 3 section with different videos to measure their stress level. This questionnaire is done in stages through pre-test and post-test. The results suggest that immersion in virtual landscape settings has similar beneficial effects as exposure to surrogate nature. These results also suggest that virtual can be used as a tool to study and understand restorative effects.