Beam me up, Scotty – for the future of sustainability, The Guardian
Face Reality with Age-Morphed Photos, Wired Magazine
Responding to VHIL research, Allianz plans to start offering age-mophed photos for 401(k) enrollees.
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The Reality of The Virtual, The Wall Street Journal
When you put on the head-mounted display and chop down a virtual redwood, VHIL's haptic floor allows you to feel the forest shudder under foot.
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Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds, Stanford University
Jeremy Bailenson shares his research on virtual reality, avatars, transformed social interaction, and related communication and psychological theories, as well as implications for citizens living in the digital age.
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Infinite Reality – A Discussion with Jeremy Bailenson, KQED Forum
What do digital virtual realities tell us about how the mind works? KQED radio program featuring the author of Infinite Reality.
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Plugging In: How Computer-To-Computer Trumps Face-To-Face, Psychology Today Magazine
VHIL studies indicate that in the future mediated interactions will be more intimate than face-to-face ones.
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Virtual experiences can cause false memory formation in children, Stanford Report
50 percent of children who experienced swimming with whales in virtual reality thought the experience was real.
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Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn, Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court Justice Alito quotes Infinite Reality in his concurring opinion concerning the future of video games
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Virtual Reality and Social Networks Will Be a Powerful Combination, Los Angeles Times
Infinite Reality authors Blascovich and Bailenson predict that Avatars will make social networks seductive.
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Virtual Aging Photos May Offer Incentive To Save, CBS 5
Researchers at Stanford say having a clear visual image of how we might look like at retirement age could help us face reality and better plan for it.
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The ‘virtual revolution’ is altering human behavior and social interactions, Los Angeles Times
Blascovich and Bailenson are ideally situated to write this guide to the new world coming; they are scholars in the field who communicate complex ideas to readers without seeking refuge in techno jargon.
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Seeing is Believing: A new book examines how virtual reality is impacting our lives and culture, Brain World
Virtual Reality fools the brain into believing that digital events are actually ocurring - Brain World interviews Infinite Reality co-author Jeremy Bailenson.
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A Greener Future, Maclean’s
Infinite Reality authors say people will be able attend "virtual meetings" in the form of highly realistic three-dimensional avatars instead of paying the personal and environmental toll of flying across the country.
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Virtual reality alters real world behavior, APM Marketplace Tech Report
In VHIL researcher Grace Ahn's study, participants used less paper after cutting down a virtual tree.
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3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once, The New York Times
In a virtual conference with three-dimensional avatars participants would feel immersed in the scene as you they around at the other participants from the eyes of their avatar.
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New virtual reality research – and a new lab – at Stanford, Stanford Report
Cutting down a virtual redwood with a virtual chainsaw may lead you to save trees by recycling more paper.
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Meet ‘Future You.’ Like What You See?, The Wall Street Journal
To increase retirement investment by young people researchers are tapping into the Proteus effect, behavioral alterations in the real world that are triggered by changes in how our bodies appear to us in a virtual world.
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Your Avatar, Your Guide, Scientific American
Seeing a digital doppelgänger can change your mind — for better or worse. VHIL is exploring how doppelgänger avatars can be effective in advertising or in therapy to clients who have phobias or social anxiety.
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A Museum of Virtual Media: The brain doesn’t much care whether an experience is real, Natural History Magazine
Infinite Reality authors Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson imagine a hands-on Museum of the History of Virtual Reality Technology.
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Virtual Self, NSF Science Nation
Evidence from VHIL research on Avatars suggest that you start to become the idealized person you imagine.
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Separation Anxiety, Stanford Magazine
Now that there's no escaping the digital world, research is getting more serious about what happens to personalities that are incessantly on.
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