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 Reality Reduces Climate Indifference by Making Distant Locations Feel Psychologically Close - from @stanfordvr.bsky.social #VirtualReality vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Google Earth remains the best thing to happen to VR, which is impressive for an application that hasn’t been updated for nearly 8 years.

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...

We’re hiring @ucdavis.bsky.social Comm! TT Asst Prof in Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Our dept blends behavioral, biological & computational strengths at one of the most interdisciplinary campuses anywhere. Apps due Oct 15. Glad to chat recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289

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/...

I had a blast doing the Stanford #VR lab experience! It provides a wide sample of the powerful #virtualreality features available to the current technology. I highly recommend it to anyone that ever wondered what the tech can actually do! #stanford

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/...

Dearest VR users, please take my survey about sleep and VR use. Dearest non-VR users, please re-skeet this into the orbits of more VR users. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BEASTS: Dual Perspectives on Virtual Puppetry through Theatrical Expression and XR Research Stanford VHIL & C.U.T.E. blend theater & research via live digital puppetry drawing on Korean folklore. Performer creates & becomes shaped by fantastical representations. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Sobre ponerse en los zapatos del otro: es la compasión guiada con la razón, no la empatía (Bloom). La primera te mueve a ayudar con una base moral, la segunda solo te lleva a un estado mental. La #VR, como máquina de empatía, es inevitable. Que luego razones y eso haga que ayudes al otro, un mundo.

Years later (and many polygons fewer) we finally ported Becoming Homeless to the Meta Quest for free. www.meta.com/experiences/... Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival (2017), VHIL's most studied piece on VR empathy. Samples in the 1000s, behavioral measures, longitudinal outcomes months later.

Years later (and many polygons fewer) we finally ported Becoming Homeless to the Meta Quest for free. www.meta.com/experiences/... Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival (2017), VHIL's most studied piece on VR empathy. Samples in the 1000s, behavioral measures, longitudinal outcomes months later.

Looks like someone at Meta has been doing their Stanford homework. www.uploadvr.com/meta-ideal-v...

El factor de forma del visor #VR nos da unos 30 min antes de sentirse incómodo por el peso. ¿Y la carga cognitiva? La simulación de contextos puede pesar más que el propio cacharro.

Personality activates differently depending on environmental context. Also in VR! @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social shows groups with extraverts excel in large spaces. Extroversion detectable by speech in platforms who can "shard" users by world size for group success. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Personality activates differently depending on environmental context. Also in VR! @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social shows groups with extraverts excel in large spaces. Extroversion detectable by speech in platforms who can "shard" users by world size for group success. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

@annacqueiroz.bsky.social shows benefits of embodied perspective taking in corporate context. "Becoming" an employee and reliving one's own feedback improved emotional expressions in conversation. And, practice makes perfect, repeating VR training improves skills. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

@annacqueiroz.bsky.social shows benefits of embodied perspective taking in corporate context. "Becoming" an employee and reliving one's own feedback improved emotional expressions in conversation. And, practice makes perfect, repeating VR training improves skills. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

wow, great presentation of a computational literature review from David Markowitz and Jeremy Bailenson with a final sample of 21.000 papers on VR, identifying themes, journals, and metadata. With human coders, this would have taken 7 years of coding.

What if your brain could control a lobster in VR, or grow a third arm? Homuncular Flexibility explores how we adapt to nonhuman avatars. A wild journey through brain plasticity, empathy, and VR’s future. Read the paper by Won, Bailenson and Lanier: vhil.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

Some interesting thoughts in here.

“Explore highlights of nearly two decades of research from Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and discover how we can use this medium to enhance our everyday lives.” — Virtual Becomes Reality: A @StanfordVR Experience on Steam https://bit.ly/3qzrO08

Learning to fly a plane? Practicing speaking before a large crowd? #VirtualReality is great. Attending mundane meetings, answering email? Not so much. Check out the findings from a review of 30 years of #VR research led by @stanfordvr.bsky.social news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

This Review by Bailenson et al presents five canonical psychological research findings in VR over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated, and are useful for both researchers and users of VR.

Researchers at Stanford suggest 5 "canonical" findings from 30 years of psychological experimentation in VR: www.uploadvr.com/5-canonical-...

Five enduring, in-lab VR results (w/ @stanfordvr.bsky.social): (1) presence depends on activity, (2) self-avatars shape behavior, (3) VR better for procedural than abstract learning,(4) body tracking is powerful but privacy-risky, (5) people underestimate VR distance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Study: "the benefit of being there [VR] depends on the activity; self-avatars influence behaviour; procedural training works better than abstract learning; body tracking makes VR unique; people underestimate distance in VR." #VirtualReality #ImmersiveLearning #EdTech www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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...

VHIL suggests "30 minutes" for VR sessions. Robby Ratan & colleagues tested it. 30 participants met regularly over 3 months. Duration had an inverted U-shaped relationship with peer social presence. Many peaks are in the 30 minute range but varied by participant. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

VHIL suggests "30 minutes" for VR sessions. Robby Ratan & colleagues tested it. 30 participants met regularly over 3 months. Duration had an inverted U-shaped relationship with peer social presence. Many peaks are in the 30 minute range but varied by participant. 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...

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...

Who speaks next? @PortiaWang.bsky.social analyzed a VR dataset of 77 sessions, 1660 minutes of group meetings over 4 weeks. Verbal & nonverbal history captured at millisecond level predicted turn-taking at nearly 30% over chance. To appear @acm-cscw.bsky.social. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

📢New Pub📢 led by @portiawang.bsky.social (soon out in #CSCW2025 ) investigates turn-taking behaviors in social #VR by extracting features based on social dynamics literature 🗣️

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

Who speaks next? @PortiaWang.bsky.social analyzed a VR dataset of 77 sessions, 1660 minutes of group meetings over 4 weeks. Verbal & nonverbal history captured at millisecond level predicted turn-taking at nearly 30% over chance. To appear @acm-cscw.bsky.social. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Years went into the large-scale study that honed the cognitive load algorithm for HP Omnicept, measuring pupillometry, saccade, gaze direction, and heart-rate variability. 738 participants, 4 continents, ages 19-61, tasks varying in cognitive load. Now published! vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Years went into the large-scale study that honed the cognitive load algorithm for HP Omnicept, measuring pupillometry, saccade, gaze direction, and heart-rate variability. 738 participants, 4 continents, ages 19-61, tasks varying in cognitive load. Now published! vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Described as "..incredibly realistic and well-done..." The VR experience and supplementary education materials are available to anyone who has access to a Meta Quest headset. winknews.com/2025/03/21/s...

If no one does the work, we'll never know. That's why we're here now.

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...

The OECD embraces our DICE model, suggests focusing VR use on Dangerous, Impossible, Counterproductive or Expensive experiences. New international governance report highlights largescale wins, cautions downsides, reviews regulations over countries & provides actionable policy advice. t.co/iVpxg4qYyq

While migrating from Twitter to Bluesky, we found the first VHIL Tweet, March 11th, 2011, a trailer from the book Infinite Reality. While futurism isn't our strongpoint, other than the expensive and clunky hardware (and that soundtrack), the video holds up decently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYGa...

Congrats to @eugyhan.bsky.social who has officially accepted a tenure track position at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication, bringing her stellar research on avatar identity, human perception, and VR classrooms to the Sunshine State. Go Gators! @ufjschool.bsky.social

Congrats to @eugyhan.bsky.social who has officially accepted a tenure track position at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication, bringing her stellar research on avatar identity, human perception, and VR classrooms to the Sunshine State. Go Gators! @ufjschool.bsky.social