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The Trials and Tribulations of Narrative in VR, mediaX

The Trials and Tribulations of Narrative in VR, <b>mediaX</b>

From the October 24th mediaX Sensing and Tracking for 3D Narratives Conference, Jeremy Bailenson looks at the Ocean Acidification Project that allows users to stand in heavy traffic and follow carbon dioxide molecules from car tailpipes to the sea, where they are absorbed.

Using virtual reality to make you more empathetic in real life, <b>The Washington Post</b>

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.

Using Virtual Reality to Avoid Catastrophe, <b>Popular Science</b>

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.

Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic?, <b>Wired</b>

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.

A conversation with Jeremy Bailenson, <b>Charlie Rose/Bloomberg</b>

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.

Virtual reality works for games. But what about real life?, <b>Recode</b>

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.

How virtual reality can change how you act toward others, <b>CBS News</b>

"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."

Virtual reality tested by NFL as tool to confront racism, sexism, <b>USA Today</b>

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 in self-defense, the hands feature black skin.

<b>Childhood Development and Immersion</b>

There is little research on children and immersive virtual reality. Our research seeks to examine how young children behaviorally and socially respond to immersive virtual reality, and the characters within it. We have conducted an extended review of the literature that currently exists in this realm and are preparing a white paper on the “state of the art” of the overlap between developmental psychology and VR. Moreover, we have run a series of studies that will contribute to a better understanding of children’s experiences with this new technology.

How advances in virtual reality will change how we work and communicate, <b>PRI Science Friday</b>

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.

The See Change, <b>Stanford Magazine</b>

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.

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.

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.

Real experiences can change you, and virtual reality experiences can feel like real ones so virtual reality experiences can change you too. Jeremy Bailenson delves into how to create these experiences, on demand, that will change who we are as people.

Immersive Science Learning in Virtual Reality, <b>Stanford Report</b>

At the "Thinking Big About Learning" symposium at Stanford, Jeremy Bailenson discussed how virtual reality can be used to teach about the potential effects of climate change on coral reefs and marine life.

360° Diving Exploration of Kelp Forest Aquarium, <b>BBC Big Blue Live</b>

Stanford scholars — The Goldbogen Lab and The Virtual Human Interaction Lab — have teamed with BBC Big Blue Live to capture immersive 360 footage of a vibrant kelp forest. This immersive learning tool will be used to teach about marine science and to understand the role of immersive media in education.

In this line of studies, we are examining a concept first developed by Jaron Lanier called "homuncular flexibility" – the ability to learn to control novel avatars in interactive tasks. For example, in order to reach further in virtual space, can users learn to control avatar bodies with extra limbs? This line of research looks at whether the way these avatar bodies look, and the way they are controlled, affects task success, liking and the sense of presence.

Virtual reality could make a real difference in environment, <b>San Francisco Chronicle</b>

Jeremy Bailenson describes how virtual reality can bring people inside of a degraded ocean ecosystem and show how their personal carbon footprint contributes to ocean acidification.

The Trials and Tribulations of Narrative in VR, mediaX

Using virtual reality to make you more empathetic in real life, The Washington Post

Using Virtual Reality to Avoid Catastrophe, Popular Science

Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic?, Wired

A conversation with Jeremy Bailenson, Charlie Rose/Bloomberg

Virtual reality works for games. But what about real life?, Recode

How virtual reality can change how you act toward others, CBS News

Virtual reality tested by NFL as tool to confront racism, sexism, USA Today

Childhood Development and Immersion

Tricking Your Brain in Virtual Reality, Tested

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

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

Experience on Demand, mediaX

Immersive Science Learning in Virtual Reality, Stanford Report

360° Diving Exploration of Kelp Forest Aquarium, BBC Big Blue Live

Homuncular Flexibility

Virtual reality could make a real difference in environment, San Francisco Chronicle

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