NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with virtual reality researcher Jeremy Bailenson about his new book Experience on Demand. And she also tries some VR herself. NPR Weekend Edition » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2018/02/npr-real-vr.pdf" style="default" size="normal"...
As a leading researcher in the field, Jeremy Bailenson crafts new worlds that feel real, to explore their beneficial uses. In Experience On Demand, he tours the myriad applications that he and others are developing. After a great deal of hype by science-fiction film...
VHIL presented an immersive virtual reality experience about ocean acidification to members of the Palauan National Congress. Lab members worked with students to find stressed coral to film video for a new VR experience that about the impacts of climate change. A few...
VHIL researchers are experimenting with how to establish a "psychological connection" to real-life events through virtual reality. Professor Jeremy Bailenson is exploring human reaction to the technology, and how making people part of a scene can create empathy to...
VHIL is studying 1,000 volunteers from the San Francisco Bay area, assessing their reactions to homelessness by dividing them into four groups and exposing them to the issue using four types of media. The Washington Post » [button text="View PDF"...
VHIL researchers hope to make their virtual reality "field trip" a vital conservation tool, aiming to give its "travelers" as real an experience as possible. The goal is to get people to understand in a visceral way what climate change is doing to the oceans. Popular...
VR scenarios could be more effective than the traditional public service ad at making people behave. Afterwards, they waste less paper. They save more money for retirement. They’re nicer to the people around them. And this could have consequences in terms of how we...
VHIL seeks to better understand the impact that virtual reality has on human behavior and change the way people think about areas such as education, empathy and the environment.
At Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Recode’s Mark Bergen became a football quarterback and The Verge’s Lauren Goode flew through a building. These things didn’t really happen, but they sure felt real — and that was the point. Mark and Lauren spoke with...
"Virtual reality is not a media experience. When it's done well, it's an actual experience," says Jeremy Bailenson "In general, our findings show that VR causes more behavior change, causes more engagement, causes more influence than other types of traditional media."...
VHIL's diversity demos are designed to transport users into unfamiliar and unsettling realms. In one scenario, a user is represented by an African-American female avatar who is being angrily harassed by a white avatar. When the user reflexively lifts his or her arms...
Jeremy Bailenson discusses the potential uses of virtual reality to replace face to face meetings. VR meetings can be made hyper-personal or more social than you can have in the real world. PRI Science Friday » [button text="View PDF"...
We are going from essentially no VR to potentially pervasive use of the most powerful medium ever. VHIL studies the consequences of a world where anything can happen at the touch of a button and feel like it’s actually happening. Stanford Magazine » [button text="View...
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 » ...
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. Tested » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cil7OT8bGik