VR spatiality is ideological. This VR app and screen capture is a 3D realisation of Motel Room number 1 from Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho of 1960. The mobile phone application, which was rendered in Unity 3D in March 2019, is an invitation to test the limits of VR’s current over determination as an ‘empathy machine’. What does it mean to immerse oneself in the violent, voyeuristic world of Norman Bates? Do viewers feel present in a physical space or experience this as an extension of cinema - as an illusion? What happens to the empathy machine in this configuration?