Meet our Project Partners

18Loop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of teens facing cancer by enabling access to VR solutions. Their partnership with the American Childhood Cancer Organization, (ACCO) represents the cornerstone of both our 2023 and 2024 collaborative efforts in Michigan, enabling us to reach and serve more children facing cancer with VR to deliver #techforgood.”

CHILD'S PLAY For over 20 years, Child’s Play Charity delivers therapeutic games and technology directly to pediatric hospitals to improve patients’ lives through the power of play. Their impressive work is trusted by over 190 hospitals across the globe.

Child's Play provides an extremely useful Therapeutic Video Game Guide featuring therapeutic insights on games and VR Apps-- to help children in hospitals cope with pain, sadness, anxiety, and boredom. Relied upon by Child Life gaming technologists and caretakers alike, this resource, is gifted to their network hospitals.

Through our new partnership, Child's Play generously expands access to this valuable Therapeutic Game Guide to allow children beyond hospital settings to also benefit from these insights-- like those participating in the VR 4 Kids Program and XRIN community.

The games recommended in this guide are curated by researchers at Circana, a market-leading video game research firm, in collaboration with mental health researchers at UCSD providing helpful information indicated for specific symptoms a child may need help coping with.

Caregivers and families can now find this guide and more insights including direct links to these specific, Meta Quest-ready VR Apps HERE on XR Impact Network!

Together, we can meet caregivers, families and children where they are, with the right XR tools to navigate health challenges -- wherever and whenever they need it.

INVINCIKIDS is a nonprofit organization with a focused determination to dramatically improve healthcare experiences for all children, regardless of their social, economic, or cultural backgrounds. They work with over sixty of the top Children’s Hospitals and Research Institutions to distribute immersive technology developed at Stanford University and other leading research partners. Invincikids generously provides access to their clinically researched VR software applications at no cost to their partners. They also can provide hardware at no cost if the partner is serving under resourced communities-- allowing these children to directly benefit from their remarkable work. We are honored to announce that in 2024, children participating in the Michigan VR 4 Kids Program will benefit from this cutting-edge research and technology!

Through our new partnership, we strengthen our impact and support of outstanding global organizations like Invincikids—who are developing scalable technology-based solutions, through an engaged community of healthcare professionals committed to improving the quality of care for every child. Together, we can transform children’s healthcare, globally.

TRIPP Inc. is an award-winning breakthrough wellness platform based on scientific research. Proven to drive engagement, TRIPP’s platform is delivering wellness solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, hospitals/clinics, and consumer households, through the use of interactive immersive VR and mobile experiences. TRIPP Inc believes in the use of technology for good.

CLEANBOX TECH is a global leader in SmartTech Hygiene-- an indispensable partner for VR projects serving immune- compromised people. Cleanbox products use proprietary patented UVC LED engineering to easily, quickly, and safely clean many types of "Shared Items" to healthcare-level (99.999%) decontamination in 60 seconds.

VIRTUAL BEINGS Children navigating health challenges tell us how much they love caring for pets in safe, virtual spaces. Virtual Beings is founded by Wendelin Reich-- a former researcher in social psychology and computer scientist at Stanford, with a special expertise in behavioral AI.

This is a mission-driven team who love humans and animals. Virtual Beings builds (VR) technology and experiences to extend their love from the physical world to the digital world.

We've begun working with the team in 2024 to provide meaningful insights from participants that impact the ongoing development of their promising behavioral AI enhanced Space Companions VR App!

LITTLE SEED VOYAGER is a VR experience designed to help address pediatric patient’s anxiety. Throughout our 2023 VR pediatric cancer project, we worked closely with Voyager's team in providing meaningful recipient feedback-- enabling valuable iterations for their solution in development.