2016 February Archive

Tricking Your Brain in Virtual Reality, Tested

Tricking Your Brain in Virtual Reality, <b>Tested</b>

We experience a VHIL demo that alters our sense of body (proprioception). We learn how easy it brain can adapt to controlling virtual limbs, and the power of visual information to override our own movements in the real world.

Tested Visits Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab!, <b>Tested</b>

While we've seen and used many virtual reality products aimed at consumers, there's also a lot of research in academia using virtual reality to study human psychology and behavior.

Meet Virtual You: How Your VR Self Influences Your Real-Life Self

You know your thoughts and feelings affect your body language — but this works the other way around, too. Happiness causes us to smile, of course, but smiling also causes us to feel happy. VHIL Experimental research suggests that this concept also applies to the virtual space, and that the physical traits of your avatar can change the way you behave in real life.

Virtually old: Embodied perspective taking and the reduction of ageism under threat

Oh, S. Y., Bailenson, J., Weisz, E., & Zaki, J. (2016). Virtually old: Embodied perspective taking and the reduction of ageism under threat. Computers in Human Behavior. 60, 398-410.

Virtual reality’s promise, risk loom large for health researchers, <b>USA Today</b>

VHIL research shows that virtual reality's powerful impact on the brain can be used to generate realistic levels of empathy and tangible reductions in pain.

Monthly Archives: February 2016

Tricking Your Brain in Virtual Reality, Tested

Meet Virtual You: How Your VR Self Influences Your Real-Life Self

Virtually old: Embodied perspective taking and the reduction of ageism under threat

Virtual reality’s promise, risk loom large for health researchers, USA Today

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