Vendors
Below are vendors that provide a range of different gaming and technology resources for hospitals.
3D Printing
For a list of 3d printing vendors and more, please refer to the 3D printing page.
AR
Spellbound
"Revolutionizing pediatric patient mobility with the power of augmented reality. Our mobile AR games & tools promote patient mobility, improve engagement and distract from pain." Spellbound has numerous AR options to choose from for your setting or specialty, ARISE their scavenger hunt game, quick distract cards to help with procedure distraction, their gamepacks for waiting areas, pain management training and procedure simulators.
Gaming Carts
Gamer's Outreach
"Gamers Outreach constructs portable, medical-grade video game kiosks called "GO Karts". These kiosks enable health staff to easily provide bedside activities to children unable to leave their rooms in hospitals. Each GO Kart is equipped with a gaming console, monitor, and assortment of games. The carts provide a safe and efficient way to ensure kids have access to entertainment and coping mechanisms during hospitalization. Each unit also has an internal lift mechanism, which allows healthcare staff to adjust the GO Kart to a patient's bedside, accommodating a variety of medical scenarios which may limit a patient's mobility."
Fully Loaded Electronics
"Fully Loaded Electronics™ provides the video game consoles, games and support you need to make any video game system work seamlessly in your public space. Learning how to do it yourself can be stressful and time-consuming. We provide FULLY LOADED gaming systems ready to enjoy right out of the box. We've done all the logistical work for you so that you can focus on more important things."
Starlight
Starlight Gaming delivers happiness to seriously ill children by providing them a sense of normalcy and distraction from the stress and anxiety that often comes with being a child in a hospital. Each Starlight Gaming Station comes pre-loaded with Nintendo video games and streaming platforms for hours of entertainment, but also gives each child a way to connect with friends and siblings during their hospital stay.
For 30 years, Starlight's Gaming Stations have been specially manufactured to meet strict infection safety protocols and roll anywhere in the hospital and now, they have gotten even more portable with the latest iteration, the Starlight Nintendo Switch Handheld.
Lobby Distraction
Disney & Starlight
Disney Mobile Movie Theaters
Disney Mobile Movie Theaters are a movie theater on wheels that are connected to the latest Disney content (typically via Disney+) to provide patients and families an escape during their wait through their favorite Disney movies.
Disney Playscapes, Murals, Magic Windows and Magic Art
Disney Playscapes, Murals, Magic Windows and Magic Art are a number of different Disney-themed installations to help enable play or distraction in various locations throughout your hospital.
Contact Starlight to connect with them about any of these offerings.
Kidzpace Interactive
With continued focus on high quality, easy-to-clean & sanitize, durable construction, innovative design and superior customer service, Kidzpace provides reliable, family-friendly entertainment for any environment where children want to have fun!
Spellbound
SpellBound Game Pack is designed for your clinical & public waiting areas, activity rooms, diagnostic imaging, and many other areas limited only by your imagination. It’s easy to deploy, and the fun and engaging activities can distract and help reduce patient stress and anxiety during those long waits.
Breeze Creative
Makers of Draw Alive interactive walls as well as other innovative tools for lobbies, playrooms and other common spaces.
VR
Applied VR
At AppliedVR, our virtual reality-based treatments represent a comprehensive approach to chronic pain that empowers patients with accessible digital tools self-managed in their own homes. By harnessing the unique properties of immersive therapeutics, we are delivering a bio-psycho-social solution to address the bio-psycho-social condition of chronic pain.
EdenVR
An all-in-one VR for healthcare, Eden Wellness Stations are the world's easiest Virtual Reality combo to bring the benefits of immersive technology to your children's ward. With their unique characters, the Get Well Pals, patients can watch episodes in VR on topics such as, What is Cancer, Getting Chemotherapy, Getting and MRI, Needles, Feeling Scared, Keeping Calm, etc. Currently, this system is designed to have a base station that pairs with the headsets, so providers/families can follow along on the base station to see what the patient is seeing in VR.
KindVR
KindVR’s mission is to help patients mitigate pain and stress by developing virtual reality therapies for specific medical procedures and conditions.
- Bone Fracture Reductions - Emergency
- Laceration Repair Procedures - Emergency
- Mediport Access Procedures - Oncology & Hematology
- Pre-Op Stress - Anesthesiology
- Sickle Cell Disease Pain Crisis - Hematology
- MRI Patient Education and Practice - Radiology
- IV Insertion - Emergency
LittleSeed
Pnemubra
"We believe rehab should be delightful and engaging. That’s why we’ve created an intuitive system based on science, giving therapists the tools to motivate patients and help keep them engaged in their rehabilitation."
REAL - y series
The REAL - y series focuses on physical and cognitive rehabilitation.
REAL - i series
The REAL - i series focuses on cognition and mental health-well being.
SmileyScope
VR option for procedures (especially needle pokes)
Starlight
Starlight Virtual Reality is a state-of-the-art technology program that provides pediatric patients the opportunity to “escape” the walls of their hospital room into new worlds of fun and exploration. It can be used to distract kids during difficult and painful medical procedures or as a resource to reduce a child’s stress and anxiety caused by hospitalization. It is the first general use VR program for hospitals that includes a customized, thoroughly wipeable, and wireless hospital-ready headset with content that allows patients with limited mobility to control their experience using a remote or only their head.