Empathy Development Training in Virtual Reality provides agencies with a low-cost, easily-accessible training option to support their Use of Force or Crisis Intervention training programs. Produced in collaboration with experts in crisis intervention as well as clinicians and behavioral analysts, VR-based content is delivered in a 360-Video on an Oculus Go headset, and provides trainees with a first-person point-of-view of both a subject in crisis and a responding officer in various scenarios. Officers will make choices within the training that will affect the scenario's outcome with the intention of successfully de-escalating the subject. Research indicates that 25-50% of all lethal force deaths by police affect individuals with untreated severe mental illness.* Empathy Development Training VR is an exploration on the use of Virtual Reality technologies to help address the gaps in knowledge on interacting with persons in crisis.