Special edition: 12.2025
In This Issue:
At VRD HealthTech, we provide direction for immersive health technology in Latin America.
In a space that is still emerging, our role has been to serve as a guiding light: a steady point of reference for how immersive technologies can be used responsibly, ethically, and meaningfully in health, education, and wellness across the region. We didn’t just introduce technology, we helped make sense of it.
What this means:
- Access to carefully selected immersive health solutions
- Training that empowers professionals to use these tools with confidence
- Ongoing support so programs can grow and continue serving people
- Vision to understand what’s coming next—and how to prepare for it
At the core of everything we do is people. Through new geographies, new partnerships, and new immersive solutions, we expanded the ways we can support mental health, cognitive wellbeing, learning, and performance across Latin America.
Each step forward- each new product, each new country, each new collaboration- was not about growth for its own sake, but about broadening the impact we can have on the health and wellness of the communities we serve. What follows is not a list of sales milestones; it’s a reflection of how we showed up and whom we supported along the way.
Happy New Year!
- The VRD HealthTech team
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End of Year recap: The "Immersive Tech Talk" Podcast.
Did you catch all of 2025's episodes?
Our fifth episode featured Myron Krueger, and 1 additional special guest. Watch the episode to find out who!
Check out the 5th episode on Youtube.
Our sixth episode featured Dr. Russell Shilling, a nationally recognized innovator at the intersection of technology, mental health, and immersive media.
Check out the 6th episode on Youtube.
Our seventh episode featured Lance Loesberg, the CEO of BigLook360.
Looking back at the 2025 year,
VRD HealthTech's mission included expanding:
- Access — making immersive technology visible and understandable
- Training — equipping professionals with skills and standards
- Support — walking alongside institutions as they implement
- Vision — helping the region see what’s ahead
This year was not about selling technology, but about representing people, strengthening systems, and building a future where immersive tools are used thoughtfully across Latin America.
Quarter 3: Deepening Application & Professional Use
Moving from learning to implementation, we prompted the transition from “Can this work?” to “This is how we use it responsibly.” Immersive technology only matters when it is applied with intention.
Key impact:
- Emphasized a strong alignment between technology, ethics, and professional standards while expanding demonstrations and applied use cases into corporate enterprises.
- Continued reinforcement of VR as a support for mental health, education, and human talent development.
Quarter 4: Institutional Trust
From adoption to system-level integration, immersive technology moved from innovation into infrastructure: supporting prevention, rehabilitation, training, and care at scale.
Key impact:
- Coaching and human talent development agencies adopting Virtuleap applications to Enhance their service offerings.
- Strategic meetings with National Insurance Institute of Costa Rica, including engagement with the National Trauma Hospital.
- Introduced certifications in VR for Exposure-Based CBT (with PsyTechVR).
From Shari Marion, CEO of VRD HealthTech
The year 2025 was defined by expansion—not just in geography, but in purpose. Immersive technology reached new sectors, new institutions, and new countries.
People were open, engaged, and willing to explore how these tools could support real human needs.
We look forward to 2026 as a time to add new geographies, new application partners, and new sectors of professional clients.
Thanks to all who helped make 2025 an incredible year for VRD HealthTech!
More to follow...
Our Application Partners:
Augment Therapy's AR Well Pro, an augmented-reality wellness app designed to support sensory regulation, emotional balance, and stress reduction through immersive, guided experiences. AR Well Pro helps people who struggle with sensory and emotional overload find calm, focus, and regulation.
Cognitive Leap's vCAT, a virtual-reality–based assessment tool designed to measure attention and executive functioning in a realistic, distraction-rich environment of a classroom. vCAT helps identify how attention functions in real-world conditions, offering clear, objective insights into focus and executive control.
Healium combines virtual or augmented reality with real-time biofeedback to support emotional regulation, stress reduction, and mental well-being. Healium helps people see and practice emotional regulation, turning mindfulness into an interactive, evidence-based experience that supports calm, focus, and resilience.
PsyTechVR helps people face fears, process trauma, and build emotional resilience by bringing clinically guided exposure therapy into immersive, controlled virtual worlds. It is designed to support evidence-based psychological treatment, particularly exposure therapy and emotional regulation, within safe, controlled virtual environments.
Virtuleap's Enhance VR provides cognitive training that uses science-based games to strengthen key mental abilities through engaging, immersive experiences.
WAYA Health helps people regulate emotions, reduce distress, and reconnect with a sense of calm by using immersive virtual environments that support mental and emotional healing.
SPIE AR | VR | MR Conference & Expo: January 20-22, 2026
Location: San Francisco, California
Meet with the biggest names in consumer electronics and up-and-coming XR companies.
AWE Asia 2026: February 2-4, 2026
Location: Singapore
This conference is one of the major global XR events with industry exhibits, talks, and networking across AR/VR/XR sectors.