Fear of Heights was a virtual reality (VR) game we had to create within my study in groups. We got the case of tackling fear of heights within people using VR.

We worked with a repsenestive from KPN to address a prototype for them to try this out. We used the HTC Vive as our main VR headset to setup the gameplay.

The game revolved around spawning in an elevator and suddenly it breaks down. The player has to navigate on some really high islands to collect the parts to fix the elevator.

When a player steps on an island it slowly starts slowly to disappear giving the user who has the phobia of height insight into moving but they will not fall through once it is gone.

The game is provided with audio cues as the user goes through to calm them through the experience.

Fear of Heights (VR) was just a prototype we developed and is not published publicly. It is also has some bugs as it is an early prototype.

You can try the game yourself if you’re interested by downloading it from itch.io, it works with the HTC Vive only and no support is provided if you want to run it.