Gurney Journey is an immersive mixed reality experience designed to ease the anxiety of surgical patients during one of the most stressful moments of their care journey, the transport from pre-op to the operating room.
As the patient is wheeled down the corridor, they are invited to leave the clinical world behind. Through a mixed reality headset, they pass through a shimmering portal that transforms their surroundings into a breathtaking virtual world filled with wonder and gentle distraction. Soft snowflakes drift overhead, curious animals roam alongside the gurney, sleek spaceships glide across an otherworldly sky, and magnificent flying whales soar gracefully in the distance, each one a reminder that imagination has no limits.
Gurney Journey is not just a technological novelty, it is a thoughtfully crafted therapeutic tool. By replacing the sterile sights and sounds of a hospital hallway with a serene, fantastical environment, it redirects the patient's attention away from fear and toward curiosity and calm. The experience is designed to be passive and effortless, requiring no interaction, patients simply ride, breathe, and explore the world unfolding around them.
Whether a patient is young or old, first-time or returning, Gurney Journey meets them where they are and carries them somewhere better, arriving at the operating room with a quieter mind, a steadier heart, and a sense that they are being cared for in every possible way.
Demo of Gurney Journey XR Mechanics