"Virtual reality is an experience," said Jeremy Bailenson, the director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab. "Your brain is saying to you 'This isn't real,' but the back of your brain says 'Wow ...

--The Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University, the pioneering lab focused on the psychological and behavioral effects of virtual reality, announced today a new study in collaboration ...

Whatever the near-term market for consumer virtual reality systems, VR as a technology seems to have great potential for changing the way we think and act. Researchers at Stanford s Virtual Human ...

O ne question the folks in Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab like to ask: In virtual worlds, do we have to be us? The lab started out with subtle changes to the human appearance: making your ...

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What makes the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford feel so real? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das takes a look at the technology behind the lifelike world and gets a taste of "the pit." ...

Over the summer and again in the fall, Bailenson, the founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, taught more than 260 students in his “Virtual People” class, which ...

Labs are now doing much of their work on products such as Oculus Rift ($500), and researchers suggest that soon patients will be able to access trauma-reducing programs through smartphone-based VR ...

The NFL hopes to leverage the immersive power of virtual reality, referred to by experts as "presence." By putting on goggles that replace the real world with interactive VR scenes, the brain ...

The university’s impressive VR set-up proves that fully immersive gaming is right around the corner. As you can see from the above video, Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, or ...

Forget the pills, hypnosis, and meditation. Losing weight or boosting self-confidence can be achieved by adopting an avatar and living in virtual reality, says Jeremy N. Bailenson, an assistant ...

If you become a nonhuman in virtual reality, will you gain empathy for it? Author Kara Platoni's account of her experience at Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.