April 2011 Archives

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. Maclean’s » View...

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.

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. The New York Times » View...

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. That finding is an example of how real-world behavior can be changed by immersing people in virtual reality environments – a notion that is at the heart of work...