Elliot A. picked up cycling in the past year, and like a lot of good habits, it went from a casual interest to a real part of his life fast. But cycling asks something specific of the body. You spend hours folded forward over the handlebars, and for someone managing lower back pain, that hunched position turns every ride into a negotiation. "Am I out here for 30 minutes, or can I be out here for three hours?" That was the question Elliot carried onto every ride. Not "where do
Curious how Immergo's platform came to be? Our co-design research is now published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality , and we're excited to share the story behind our approach to building XR telehealth for physical rehabilitation. Research Driven from the Start In collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and University of Montana, we conducted one of the first stakeholder co-design workshops focused specifically on embodied telehealth for physical rehabilitation. We brough
How a judo injury sparked a mission to democratize movement care Sometimes the most transformative innovations emerge from personal struggle. For Aviv Elor, co-founder, President & Chief Research Officer of Immergo Labs, that moment came during a national judo competition when he ruptured his elbow. We're excited to share a new video that captures Aviv's journey behind Immergo Labs. Directed by fellow UC Santa Cruz alumnus Jacinto Salz of Opn Roads Media, the video explores h
