Visualate

The Visualate app and its accompanying prototype headset introduces a new form of vision based therapy called ‘visualation’ that aims to promote focus and calm through administering stimuli to the peripheral vision together with:

low-stress interactive activities with rewards
music, both pre-selected and from users’ own music library
breathing exercises, with the optional breath sensor.

What is visualation?

Visualation promotes relaxed and focused mental states by stimulating the left and right peripheral visual field, in a sequence of incremental steps. Instructions and sometimes music are used throughout to guide users to deeper states of relaxation and presence through directing attention further away from a tight forward looking focus.

For those who spend large amounts of time sitting at a desk, with their vision tightly focused on a screen, it provides an ideal method for:

taking a quick screen break without needing to move around.
getting ready for a meeting or other event that requires a clear and focused mindset
calming the mind when it is preoccupied with thoughts

What are Visualators?

Visualators are small light-display units that can be plugged into compatible headphones.

Through displaying sequences of light patterns to our peripheral vision, Visualators exploit a useful shortcut in our brains that bypasses the thinking mind altogether, maximising focus on the present. With Visualators, your mind potentially undergoes a clean reset that breaks through the flow of thoughts, bringing you to a calm and attentive state much faster than you could otherwise achieve.