SENSIKS creates Sensory Reality Pods & Platform for organizations working on recovery, performance, quality of life, research and human wellbeing.
The platform coordinates digital content with the physical sensory environment around a person — bringing together sight, sound, scent, temperature, airflow, light and tactile effects in one controlled setting.
One integrated system combining Sensory Reality Pods, ready-to-use content, platform tools and optional measurement across workplace, care, research and multisensory events.
Visual, acoustic, olfactory, thermal, tactile and airflow stimulation in one dedicated physical system.
Multisensory journeys for recovery, focus, care, research, storytelling and immersive use, with or without VR.
Optional physiological streams such as HR, HRV, respiration and EDA/GSR can be aligned with the session timeline where response measurement is relevant.
Simple for the visitor. Deep control behind the experience.
A music activation becomes a sensory performance. A department store becomes a destination. The same orchestration technology reaches frontier telepresence — and world-class performers, clinicians and innovators keep coming back.
At SXSW Interactive, H.R.H. Prince Constantijn van Oranje — Special Envoy of the Netherlands StartupDelta — opened the New Dutch Wave and pointed to SENSIKS, highlighting its application in mental health and the treatment of PTSD as the Sensory Reality Pod premiered on the show floor.
Inside the A360 / XPRIZE innovation context, XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis stepped into the pod — and the reaction afterwards captured exactly what a multisensory reset can feel like.
“That was incredible. Incredible journey. Amazing.”Peter Diamandis · video overlay
Renowned mycologist and author Paul Stamets stepped into Sensory Reality, experiencing how synchronized visuals, sound, scent, airflow and temperature can shape a guided inner journey — a fitting fit for a lifelong explorer of the mind and the natural world.
Dr. Brennan Spiegel, one of the leading voices in medical virtual reality, offered SENSIKS complementary exhibition space at Cedars-Sinai — the Los Angeles hospital known as “the hospital to the stars” — for a VR medicine event, positioning Sensory Reality as a physical sensory layer around the virtual scene.
The Superfutures / Super Self installation turned a department-store visit into an experiential wellness destination, using SENSIKS as a bright, immediately recognizable object on the shop floor.
“transported — by shifts in temperature, airflow, light and smell”Azure Magazine
Through the Radboudumc ReShape innovation programme led by Lucien Engelen, SENSIKS was highlighted as a promising multisensory approach for mental-health and wellbeing — an early clinical signal from a leading Dutch academic medical centre.
“We think our partner SENSIKS can help us cope with dementia, PTSD, burn-out and Parkinson's.”Lucien Engelen · Director of ReShape, Radboudumc
With development partner TNO, SENSIKS was showcased at an innovation event — promoting mental resilience for first responders and placing sensory technology directly inside the resilience conversation.
For a Warner Music activation around Amsterdam Dance Event, David Guetta experienced his own music inside the SENSIKS pod with sight, sound, scent, airflow and temperature engaged at once — turning a familiar track into a physical, shareable brand moment.
“We should do this in every club.”David Guetta · interview overlay
After a strong state shift at the A360 summit in Los Angeles, Tony Robbins invited SENSIKS to install a Sensory Reality Pod at his Palm Beach residence — a fully organic endorsement with no sponsorship fees or paid promotion, driven by direct personal experience and repeated invitations.
“I want this at my home.”Tony Robbins · after A360, Los Angeles
Positioning: not a replacement for therapy or coaching, but a complementary layer that can amplify resilience, regulation and personal-growth work.
SENSIKS served as a core technology partner in the Dutch I-Botics consortium, helping build a bidirectional multi-sensory telepresence system that finished 5th among 130 teams from 36 countries in the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE — objective third-party proof of real-time sensory orchestration, latency management and resilient systems design.
Sensory stimulation can support emotional wellbeing, engagement and comfort in care settings. Today more than five care organizations have implemented SENSIKS pods for quality of life, sensory activation and decompression in care homes. In 2017, SENSIKS and Philadelphia explored how a multisensory environment could be adapted for people with intellectual disabilities and older adults.
The project began as a practical accessibility challenge: make a sensory pod usable by a wheelchair user while giving a caregiver enough room to share and support the experience.
In 2017, SENSIKS ran a six-month trial with Philadelphia — described as operating around 500 care locations and one of the Netherlands’ largest providers in this care segment. Based on those requirements, SENSIKS developed two wheelchair-accessible pods designed so both a participant and a caregiver could be present during a session.
Across the trial, 120 clients took part, including a fixed weekly control group of 30. VR remained optional — some used a headset, others experienced the sensory environment without it — and coloured lighting shaped different mood compositions.
The trial paired subjective feedback with integrated biofeedback, creating a broader view of how participants responded before, during and after sessions.
Subjective — an integrated affect grid and questionnaire completed by the participant or observing caregiver, captured during the experience. Objective — biofeedback signals: heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV) and skin conductance.
Rather than relying on a single measure, the trial combined participant or caregiver feedback with HR, HRV and skin-conductance data to compare states across the session. TNO analysed and reported the gathered trial data after the trial period.
The trial results were described as promising. Following the trial, Philadelphia ordered 10 wheelchair-accessible Sensory Reality Pods for larger locations; SENSIKS says these were installed in 2018.
The next phase exposed a different set of challenges: integrating the technology into everyday care routines, creating content with lasting value, and managing the operational process around its use. During 2018–2019, the focus expanded beyond the pod itself to how the experience could fit into daily care programmes.
After the Philadelphia trial, SENSIKS says other Dutch healthcare organisations in the same segment also ordered pods for quality-of-life, therapy and research applications.
A pilot study by the University of Amsterdam and TNO found that 4 of 7 veterans (57%) experienced substantial PTSD symptom reduction after just one or two treatment sessions — using multi-sensory technology combined with memory-reconsolidation therapy.
Veterans’ combat training can make emotional trauma memories harder to access through verbal or visual cues alone. Synchronized multi-sensory stimulation — especially olfactory input, with its direct connections to the amygdala — more effectively activates the complete trauma-memory networks needed for successful treatment.
These are preliminary findings that require validation through larger randomized controlled trials — a promising proof-of-concept for technology-enhanced trauma therapy in treatment-resistant military populations.
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Open any image to zoom. More like a photo book than a case list — an immediate impression of the people, places and contexts around the platform.
Where relevant, SENSIKS can align physiological and external measurement with the session timeline.
Signals such as heart rate, HRV, respiration and EDA can provide an additional layer for pilots, evaluation and research when interpreted within the selected measurement protocol.
For research teams, this creates a controlled environment in which sensory variables, content and measurement can be brought together within repeatable protocols.
For other organizations, measurement remains optional — a tool for learning rather than a requirement for using the platform.
Start with the moment you want remembered. SENSIKS can become the sensory layer around it.
A project can start with an existing film, a campaign concept, a piece of music, an event brief or simply a target feeling. The scope can stay lightweight or become a custom creative production.
What should the visitor understand, remember or feel — and where will the experience live?
Use existing video, VR, music or interactive media, or develop a new creative piece around the activation.
Map scent, airflow, temperature, light and tactile cues to the timeline and tune the experience in the pod.
Deploy it at the event or location, gather feedback and optionally align session data to the activation.
Tell us the audience, location, date and idea. We can discuss an event installation, brand activation, retail or hospitality experience, content partnership, innovation workshop or longer-term deployment.
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