Evaluation of a New Mobile Virtual Reality Setup to Alter Pain Perception: Pilot Development and Usability Study in Healthy Participants

Samuel E J Knobel   ¹ , PhD ;   Raphael Oberson   ² , PhD ;   Jonas Räber   ¹ , PhD ;   Narayan Schütz   ¹ , PhD ;   Niklaus Egloff   ³ , PD Dr med ;   Angela Botros   ¹ , PhD ;   Stephan M Gerber   ¹ , PhD ;   Tobias Nef   ^{1, 4 *} , Prof Dr ;   Lukas Heydrich   ^{2 *} , PhD

¹ Gerontechnology & Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

² CORE Lab, Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

³ Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally