Gies and charges, has permitted to get a considerable diffusion of VR in distinctive fields, from industrial application to cyber-therapy and clinical practice. On the other hand, regrettably, the charges to produce a virtual atmosphere are nevertheless high, requiring teams of technicians and psychologists working closely to create each environment stepby-step, typically for use in only a single 1 experiment. Far more data need a complicated approach to become extracted. To overcome these limitations, we propose the usage of NeuroVirtual 3D (www.neurovirtual.eu), an sophisticated platform that we created for experimental and computationalFrontiers in Psychology | http://www.frontiersin.orgNovember 2015 | Volume 6 | ArticleCipressoModeling behavior dynamicspsychology (Cipresso et al., 2014b). The platform tends to make psychological settings simple to manipulate by making a virtual environment via a straightforward approach of “drag and drop” 3D objects, pictures, video clips, and other products. Employing a straightforward wizard, researchers are able to define properties, tasks, and collisions based on proximity, mouse clicks, crucial presses, or other button functions, as well as using the use of a Kinect. Lastly, the platform has an input/output communication port based on TCP/IP protocol, which makes it possible for for the creation of a bridge involving the virtual atmosphere plus the real planet. TCP/IP protocol may also be applied to define communication in between VR experiments and computational simulations, producing the platform a bridge among true and modeled behavior (Cipresso et al., 2014b). Inside this premise, virtual environments have to have to become interactive, offering greater than just a “box” in which to move without having a scope. In an experimental perspective, NeuroVirtual 3D offers the chance to define “affordances” for experimental designs. It can be probable to define stimulus presentation in a a lot more “ecological” way, by utilizing tridimensional virtual environments and objects that can be observed like inside the actual worlds, instead of 2D static pictures. It really is also probable to make complicated interactions exactly where objects can have or lack specific physical properties, like gravity. Also, the atmosphere and its situations could possibly alter on the basis of experimental circumstances, and this makes VR a lot more potent than actual reality for behavioral science experiments. For instance, in protocols about spatial abilities, the environments can constantly change, as well as the physical properties, like the walls inside a maze, that are constrained E signals to guide the flexible efficiency of proper social behaviors within a genuine environment, can be manipulated (moved or removed) inside a virtual a single (Cipresso et al., 2014a). A different important aspect to consider is interaction with other people, such as simulated and/or real people inside the virtual atmosphere. In the 1st case, avatars, or video clips with prototypical conditions is usually utilized to elicit a certain behavior in the viewer. Real video in virtual environments might be hugely realistic, mainly because it could be set to start on proximity; that’s, the video can start when subjects are close to it, giving the impression that the video is sensible to and responding to the subjects’ actions (as an example, an apple can fall from a tree when 1 is close to it). Moreover, video clips can use a Chromakey method (developing an invisible background), in order that within NeuroVirtual 3D they seem as true persons or genuine objects.