The Restorative Influence of Virtual Reality Environment Design

We aim to explore whether beauty in moving and still virtual environments (VEs) contributes to restorativeness. We hypothesized that the moving forest environment would be the most restorative and the abstract art would be the least restorative. The Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS) and the Zuckerman Inventory of Per-sonal Reactions (ZIPERS) positive affect showed a significant increase in restorativeness in the moving forest condition than in the control condition. Additionally, PRS indicated more significance in the moving forest condition than in the abstract art condition.