​About

​Digital behavioral therapeutics - any form of intervention to improve mental or physical wellbeing -  delivered as immersive experiences with  VR/XR/AR technology promise a transformational pathway in healthcare practices. The design of the digital spaces - and how we interact with them - physically, visually and psychologically - shapes our perception about ourselves and the experience, just like any physical space and how we engage with it.

​Traditional game design principles and technologies are a starting point for creating immersive therapies. Yet these approaches need to be adapted to take account when a digital environment overlaps with a physical environment and the precision of ongoing measurement, with relation to the specific effects the environment has on the user, at any one moment, across time, and away from the digital experience itself. Without a multi-dimensional framework, any claimed therapeutic value must be considered marginal, if not suspect.

​The rapidly growing opportunity to use the spectrum of digital spatial technologies for health applications can and should unfold in the direction of evidence-backed claims and alignment with standards for digital health. Yet to have significant impact on population health outcomes, any technology must evolve towards mass adoption and equitable distribution. These objectives are often in tension.

​The panel's conversation explores the design decisions involved in creating digital spatial therapeutics, and the strategies - including trade-offs and long plays - required to bring them to scale while respecting the need for user safety and user trust in the legitimacy of the intervention.

​Leading the conversation are Nanea Reeves, CEO and Founder of TRIPP, lauded as a best invention of 2022 and the most used meditation app in VR, and Noah Falstein of The Inspiracy, who has over 40 years of game design leadership and designer of numerous games for health, with Julia Scott, cofounder of Gambit Labs and Director of the Brain and Memory Care Lab, and John Manoochehri, Founder of Treasury.

​Speakers

​Dr. Julia Scott

​CEO, Chief Science Offier, Gambit Labs, Director of Brain & Memory Care Lab, Santa Clara University

​Julia Scott is a neuroscientist who has studied at various University of California campuses, including Davis, San Diego, and San Francisco. Her research focuses on various aspects of neurodevelopment, brain aging, and neurotechnology. She currently works as the director of the Brain and Memory Care Lab at Santa Clara University, where she explores XR applications in healthcare. Julia also teaches courses in neuroscience, bioengineering, and physiology, with a focus on collaborative learning. Additionally, she is a co-founder of Gambit Labs, where she works on brain-computer-interface immersive games to improve cognitive skills.

​Noah Falstein

​Founder, The Inspiracy

​Noah Falstein has been a professional game developer since 1980 with many hit title credits and was an early hire at LucasArts, 3DO, and Dreamworks Interactive. Most recently he was Google's Chief Game Designer. His freelance design business, The Inspiracy is focused on games for health, specifically neurogaming. The Inspiracy has offered design and production consulting for companies and individuals interested in top quality game development and business contacts. Falstein also lectures and conducts seminars on game design and development, for both traditional and serious games.

He has chapters published in six different game industry books, and is working on his own book about game design issues.

​Nanea Reeves

​CEO & Co-Founder, TRIPP Inc.

​As the CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP, Inc., Nanea Reeves is a visionary leader in the emerging field of immersive wellness. TRIPP, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2022, is a global service that offers interactive and transformative experiences for mental and emotional well-being on mobile and spatial devices. Nanea founded TRIPP after a personal crisis that inspired her to combine her lifelong meditation practice, her passion for video games, and her extensive software development experience to create a novel and accessible way to help people cope with stress, anxiety, and depression.

Nanea has over 20 years of experience in digital distribution, video game technologies, and mobile application development.

​John Manoochehri

​CEO & Founder, Treasury

​​​John Manoochehri is an architect and environmental scientist, with a specialization in computational design. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford, a diploma in architecture from the Royal College of Art in Stockholm, and has taught architecture, urban design planning studios and courses at the Royal Institute of Technology Architecture School in Stockholm. He previously founded an architectural design technology company, Last Meter®, focussing on designing and adapting modern residences and commercial buildings to integrate third-party services, and founded a podcast on spatial technology, Futureperfect, sponsored by Epic Games.

​Hosted By:

​​Treasury

​Treasury is a registry and discovery system for the world’s most valuable spatial assets - architectural design, film scenes and sets, real estate, world monuments, experiential art, nature scans, and other spatial content.

​Treasury is co-founded with Zaha Hadid architects, Spaceform (backed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Thomas Heatherwick and UNStudio), and more - and financed in part by Google’s AI investment fund, Gradient.

​Treasury protects and distributes the work of spatial creators - architects, real estate owners, artists, engineers, and reality capture professionals - in the era of spatial computing and generative AI.

​Builders of digital environments and spatial computing applications are invited to request a private discovery engine here: treasury.space/builder.

​Creators of spatial assets are invited to archive and fingerprint their work here: treasury.space/creator.

​Anyone with a passion for spatial design and spatial computing can become an advocate for their favorite creators and experiences, and be rewarded for doing so, here: treasury.space/activator