Can EMG coupled with a VR experience act as a therapeutic aid to modulate stress?

Our PhD candidate and researcher Melanie Baumgartner joined XR4Rehab alongside Delsys to demo VRxBioRelax —a real-time EMG biofeedback experience that brings embodiment and cognition into sharp focus. By streaming trapezius signals from Delsys Trigno® Avanti sensors into a VR landscape, participants can literally see and steer the interplay of muscle tension and progressive relaxation, stress, body, and mind.

A huge thank you to our researcher, Raphaël Weibel, for supporting the development process, to our fantastic team, and to our friends at Delsys for making this powerful mind-body dialogue possible!

VRxBioRelax is a real-time EMG biofeedback platform that streams trapezius signals from Delsys Trigno® Avanti sensors via MQTT into a Unity based VR environment, where muscle activation drives a dynamic dawn-to-dusk landscape synchronized with a seven-step progressive muscle relaxation protocol.
Stay tuned…this is just the beginning.