The virtual nature condition
visual and auditory
This condition contained a short virtual nature video (6 min) combining immersive visual and auditory aspects of both green and blue space. The recording is a point-of-view walk that begins along a woodland pathway surrounded by tall trees, followed by a section of riverside walking in the woodland, ending with a further pathway walk. Various natural sounds, such as birdsong, the rustling of leaves and water trickling in the river, can be clearly heard in the video. The reasoning for selecting this nature video was to combine both green and blue space and to provide a short but immersive, holistic virtual nature experience that analogous to natural green/blue spaces used in previous real-world research