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About Mindscape Commons

Mindscape Commons is the first and most comprehensive source of immersive and interactive content in mental health. It includes and documents nearly 200 experiences relevant for teaching and research in counseling, social work, psychology, nursing, and other related programs. Content is focused around three core areas:

  • Premium video content. 360°/180° immersive and /or interactive.
  • Open access 360° immersive video content.
  • Research project and commercial pages that feature the latest research and use cases within VR and mental health.

Mindscape Commons features a collaborative platform that encourages community involvement around emerging technologies and mental health. Members can upload projects, link out to content, and create user profiles. Mindscape will be ever-evolving and growing as more members join to use and contribute content.

Navigation

Open the menu of destinations using the icon in the upper right. Click on the Mindscape Commons logo on the upper left to return to the Home page.

Search and Browse

There are multiple ways to discover content

Keyword search: If you know what you’re looking for, start with the Quick Search bar at the top of your screen.

All Titles: Showcase all 190+ Mindscape Commons entries. This number will grow as more content is added to the platform.

Sorting: You can sort titles by Relevance, Title and Date.

Collections: Collections consist of smaller, curated content according to topics, publisher, or series.

Facets: Facets are featured to the left of screen to better help refine and narrow a search. Search by Subject, Publisher, Release Date, Immersion Factor, Target Platform and more.

Icons: Icons, located in the lower right side of project tiles, will help you determine exclusive Mindscape Commons content, Project or Commercial Pages, and Open Access content.

Links: When viewing the details of any experience, links on the page lead to other items with the same features.

See Also: Every experience has a featured set of curated See Also links to similar experiences.

How to Watch

Watching the experiences - what equipment do I need?

Mindscape Commons experiences run on a wide variety of devices, browsers, and applications. Experiences hosted on other platforms will have different hardware requirements.

Desktop, Laptop or Tablet

You can experience all of Mindscape Commons content on a modern browser on any of these devices. You can interact with VR content using your mouse, trackpad or touch-screen gestures to rotate the scene or to click on hotspots.

Mobile Web

In this mode, you can interact with VR content on your mobile device using a browser. You may use your touch-screen gestures to rotate the scene or to click on hotspots.

Mobile Web with Cardboard

In this mode, you can interact with VR content placing your mobile device in a Cardboard HMD. You can use your head movement to rotate the scene. To activate on hotspots you can focus the eye-tracker dot on a hotspot, and when your gaze comes to rest on it for a couple seconds, the hotspot will be activated.

Oculus HMD

In this mode, you can interact with the VR content on your Oculus device. See instructions on how to set up.

Content included in Mindscape Commons

Bibliography

See all the content currently in Mindscape Commons. As Mindscape grows, the bibliography will be updated frequently.

Supplementary materials

Take advantage of all the supplementary materials associated with content, such as:

Teaching guides include information on how to use content, what courses content fits into, assessment and group discussion questions, book chapters, and more.

Transcripts are available with all premier Mindscape content.

Articles and brochures that relate to specific content.

Introductory videos that provide an overview of the content.

Membership Options

There are several membership levels with Mindscape Commons. Institutional membership gives you the most content, plus all community features. Learn more here.

Glossary

We hope to collectively accelerate the development of this increasingly important field by sharing and collaborating. The glossary provides explanations of concepts relevant to interactive and immersive media.

Support

Contact Support with any technical questions: support@coherentdigital.net

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