Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Mused, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app.

I'm Patricia Carpice.

I'm excited about today's guest, Kyle Rand, because I think the work that he's doing is pretty breakthrough and has

enormous potential for shifting loneliness and social isolation in many populations.

Kyle founded a company called Rendever, which uses virtual reality technology to deliver experiences

that help to reduce social isolation

and loneliness in the aging population. They have created a large library of content from travel

to symphonies to meditation and so much more. The experiences are transformative. Their work

has been amazing with some great validated results.

He grew up volunteering in a senior living community, which has inspired this work,

and went on to study cognitive decline in the aging population. His neuroscience research

was largely focused on the link between functional, structural changes in the brain that happen as you age.

That said, I think his technology and content has the potential to help many populations.

Now, here's Kyle.

Kyle, welcome to Untangle. It's great to have you on our show today. And I have to say this is a topic we have not covered at all yet. So I'm super excited to get your perspectives on virtual reality. I'd like to start with the question. Tell us a little bit about Rendeber and what brought

you to VR and specifically why you're focused on seniors. Yeah, I think that's a great place to start.

So first of all, thank you, Patricia, for having me on the show. I'm really excited to be here.

To start there, Rendever is a company that was founded, believe it or not, six years ago,

we're about to celebrate our sixth birthday, which for a VR company is pretty old.

So we were founded with a very specific mission of reducing social isolation for the aging population.

And the way we do that is we do it through the power of positive shared experiences.

And our preferred way of delivering those experiences is we do it through the power of positive shared experiences.

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