Urban comparison condition
This comparison condition included a recording of equivalent duration to the virtual nature condition (6:00 min) that attempted to emulate a real-world urban environment. The video is taken inside a London underground train during a busy rush hour period. The video features a virtual passenger waiting at a busy and congested platform for a London Underground train to arrive. The train arriving is full of commuters and features lots of people trying to board the train. Upon entering the train, the commuter stands for the rest of the duration of the video, at close proximity to the ceiling. Noisy urban sounds can be heard throughout the video such as loud engine sounds of the trains travelling, arriving and departing from various stations, commuters talking and public service announcements being made. The experience in this recording involves exposure to multiple potential urban environmental stressors through virtual immersion in a noisy, crowded setting which in the real-world may increase aversive emotional responses Stills from the videos in the Nature and Urban conditions.