VHIL-E knows it all but rarely hallucinates! Lab materials collected, cleaned, classified, chunked, created embeddings, correlated in an index, & connected ("7 Cs"). Over 2.3 million words segmented into 10k "chunks" integrated into an RAG-based LLM. Now published. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

The barrier to effective climate communication is often personal distance — for many, it still feels like a faraway threat. A new Stanford-led study shows that virtual reality can help close that gap. Read more: bit.ly/4hzzsSt

People become attached to places they spend time in. 3D maps allow visits in VR. Santoso & colleagues show that visiting distant locations makes even politically conservative participants care about real climate change news in that city, compared to static images. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Virtual Becomes Reality finally available (for free) on Quest. Take a guided 15-minute tour of the Stanford lab. Fly like a hero, walk the plank, defend coral in Palau, become a QB, dance with Grover, transform identity in the mirror. Now we are bringing the lab to you! www.meta.com/experiences/...

New in @pnas.org! We analyzed 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased: - Tradition & benevolence dominate legacies - Major cultural events (e.g., 9/11) shifted what values were emphasized - Gender & age of the deceased shape legacies doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

5 robust, replicated, & meta-analyzed findings from 30 years of psych research in VR. Timeline of events in experiment history, recommendations for consumers & scholars new to the medium, and the DICE model on when to use (and not use) VR. @nathumbehav.nature.com vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

How do groups behave in VR? Monique Santoso coded 9,000 speech acts to develop Virtual Reality Interaction Dynamics Scheme, 10 speech acts (e.g., disagreements, context-dependent commentary). Prior speech acts and current nonverbal behavior predict group action. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

New #cscw paper out with my amazing collaborators! In it, we predicted and analyzed what features saliently predicted turn-taking behaviors in VR 🗣️📢

New paper out! We explore avatar embodiment experiences of 52 Black users in social VR from ethnographic interviews + lab study. Findings unpack embodied consequences of racial representation in immersive VR and how users navigated challenges to expressing identity. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...