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Matthew Hoad-Robson. Founder/CEO With over fifteen years experience delivering multi-award winning content for clients including Rolls-Royce, BBC, Greenpeace, NSPCC, Cancer Research UK amongst many others, Matthew is a highly experienced creative leader.
View Matthew Hoad-Robson’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Tend VR is on a mission to radically improve the world's mental health, by providing… ·...
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Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 250 million people. The cost of treating the illness stands at around £88 billion per year for the US and EU alone, with a mixed success record. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a face-to-face group therapy that has been proven to be a highly effective treatme...
Early in their product development, Tend VR saw the benefit of bringing in rigorous academic research and reached out to UCL. The Business and Innovation Partnerships (BIP) team within UCL Innovation & Enterprise introduced them to Dr Rebecca Gould (Associate Professor & Honorary Clinical Psychologist in the Division of Psychiatry at UCL). Rebecca ...
The BIP team explored the possibilities for Tend and UCL to work together, which resulted in the two parties signing a memorandum of understanding to develop and rigorously test an eight-week MBCT course. The course is delivered through a VR software and hardware platform that creates a gamified world that grows with the participant. To ensure the ...
Jan 7, 2021 · Matthew Hoad-Robson, founder and Managing Director of Tend, commented: "Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is one of the best available treatments for depression… We're very excited to work with UCL on finding new ways to deliver this vital treatment." UCL news story about Tend VR partnership.
Matthew Hoad-Robson Founder @ Tend VR 2y Report this post Facebook shortly to launch Infinite Office - VR and mixed reality (MR) workspaces. Looks intriguing and work well with Quest 2 headsets ...
Happy World Mental Health Day! We’ve been hard at work - our two latest trials started on Friday and we shipped 85 headsets to participants! It’s been a marathon to get here, so today I’m taking...
Tend VR was developed with help from people who have suffered depression, as well as psychologists and academics, and in 2022, we completed a proof of concept study (with 12 patients) with highly promising clinical results, including significant reductions in their depression and anxiety.
