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"...
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The See Change, Stanford Magazine
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...
Tricking Your Brain in Virtual Reality, Tested
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 » ...
Tested Visits Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab!, 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
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 reality’s promise, risk loom large for health researchers, USA Today
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. USA Today » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2016/02/usatoday-vrpromise.pdf" style="default" size="normal"...
360° Diving Exploration of Kelp Forest Aquarium, BBC Big Blue Live
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...
Virtual reality could make a real difference in environment, San Francisco Chronicle
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. San Francisco Chronicle » [button text="View PDF"...
Q&A: Stanford VR expert on the new tech’s promise and limitations, San Jose Mercury News
VHIL founder Jeremy Bailenson discusses the state of virtual reality, his hopes and worries for it, and what he thinks will be the killer app. San Jose Mercury News » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2015/sjmn-bailenson-qa.pdf" style="default" size="normal"...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell steps into virtual reality at Stanford, Stanford Report
During a visit to VHIL, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell learned how virtual experiences could improve training and officiating, and also teach players empathy on a variety of social issues. Stanford Report »
How might virtual reality change the world? Stanford lab peers into future, CBS News
VHIL studies how very intense experience in the virtual world changes you in the real world and shows how virtual reality can be a tool to teach you about yourself and to teach you empathy. CBS News » [button text="View PDF"...
Stanford studies virtual reality, kids, and the effects of make-believe, CBS News
VHIL partners with Sesame Street to study the effects of virtual reality on child brain development. CBS News » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_Ndt9kssg
Using virtual reality to overcome fear, reduce prejudice, USA Today
VHIL research translates into helping people combat fears, become more empathetic and reduce prejudice. USA Today »
Virtual reality becomes a reality for college football, USA Today
A graduate thesis from VHIL has transformed the way that football players train. Derek Belch and Jeremy Bailenson explored ways to shoot video during Stanford practices last season. The Stanford football team was the earliest user of the technology. USA Today »...
VR Watch: Can Stanford’s approach work for film?, Los Angeles Times
Jeremy Bailenson is skeptical of a broad use of virtual reality in film: How do you tell someone a story that you're in the middle of? Los Angeles Times » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2015/lat-stanford-approach.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank"...