Developer made Ascension VR to confront her fear of flying

Theresa Duringer is a afraid of flying. To cope with it, she designed a game that she can view and play with a Samsung Gear VR mobile headset. Ascension VR, based on a popular card game, is designed to distract her during long flights, and it launches today on the Steam and Oculus VR app stores.

Duringer said in an interview with GamesBeat that Ascension VR doesn’t appear to be a game to help people deal with the fear of flying at first glance. It’s a fantasy-role-playing card battle game where one to four players compete against each other. But the whole point of it isn’t to relax you can calm you down deliberately. It is designed to distract you from your fears. Duringer hopes that if it helps her, it will help other people as well.