Creation of interactive panoramic video for phobia treatment

This paper presents the possibilities ofdesigning new environments for virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET), effective for treating phobias. Virtual reality (VR) tools can help immerse the patient into a stressful environment and induce phobia. If this environment is sufficiently realistic and the patient can freely rotate and move in this environment at the same time, deception of senses occurs. Our paper introduces methods of creating virtual environments by the use of interactive panoramic video. We present a novel methodology for creating interactive panoramic video, explore the ways of processing this video with High Performance Computing Centre (HPCC) tools and analyze the accessible hardware and software tools. Here, we present a series of interactive panoramic videos that can be used as treatment tool in therapy.