AppliedVR is an exciting company that is using virtual reality to treat pain and anxiety in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The VR applications are designed by a multidisciplinary team for maximum therapeutic effect. Applied VR runs on the Gear VR and has two applications currently, Pain RelieVR and Anxiety RelieVR. Both have been shown in early studies to not only be effective, but in some cases superior to VR alternatives with similar gameplay/setting but lacking the targeted multidisciplinary design.AppliedVR was kind enough to send us over demos of both of their applications. Pain RelieVR is an interactive game where you are attacked by an onslaught of slightly creepy but cute teddy bears. The bears are dispatched easily by looking at them and pegging them with an auto-launching cannon. The game is simple but the setting and art design is creative and fun. I can definitely see this functioning well as a distraction from painful or frightening stimuli.After the stress of vaporizing an army of marauding teddy bears I was able to wind down with the Anxiety RelieVR application. In the demo you are transported to a virtual world, surrounded by water, trees, grass and a beautiful sunset view. Once again a relatively simple application but it was nice and soothing, so once again I can see this being effective.