Immersive VR: a non-pharmacological analgesic for chronic pain?

This paper describes the research work being carried out by the Transforming Pain Research Group -- the only group whose work is entirely focused on the use of immersive VR for chronic pain management. Unlike VR research for acute or short-term pain, which relies on pain "distraction," this research posits a new paradigm for the use of VR. In addition to providing an overview of our work, the present paper also describes one of our current works in detail: the Virtual Meditative Walk.