StanfordVR

Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience on Meta Quest Stanford researchers have produced a virtual underwater experience to allow you to observe firsthand what reefs are expected to look like by the end of the century if we do not curb our CO2 emissions....

The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, downloaded from Steam in over half of the countries in the world, showcased everywhere from Superbowl to Senate, studied thoroughly, with scholars typically demonstrating increased learning and motivation.

Now Free on Meta!

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Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience on Meta Quest Stanford researchers have produced a virtual underwater experience to allow you to observe firsthand what reefs are expected to look like by the end of the century if we do not curb our CO2 emissions....

The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, downloaded from Steam in over half of the countries in the world, showcased everywhere from Superbowl to Senate, studied thoroughly, with scholars typically demonstrating increased learning and motivation.

Now Free on Meta!

www.meta.com/experiences/...

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.

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Virtual Reality Reduces Climate Indifference by Making Distant Locations Feel Psychologically Close - from @stanfordvr.bsky.social #VirtualReality

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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.

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Department of Communication - Mediated Interpersonal Communication University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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

Stanford Virtual Becomes Reality on Meta Quest With Virtual Reality technology widely available, it’s more important than ever to understand its impact on people and society. Explore highlights of over two decades of research from Stanford's Virtu...

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!

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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

Stanford Virtual Becomes Reality on Meta Quest With Virtual Reality technology widely available, it’s more important than ever to understand its impact on people and society. Explore highlights of over two decades of research from Stanford's Virtu...

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/...

Sleep & VR Questions

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...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Experience Hall Ignites the Future of Interaction and Storytelling /PRNewswire/ -- The SIGGRAPH Experience Hall has always been more than a show floor; it's a portal. At SIGGRAPH 2025, that portal opens again, inviting...

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.

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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.

Becoming Homeless on Meta Quest In this immersive virtual reality experience, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in an...

Years later (and many polygons fewer) we finally ported Becoming Homeless to the Meta Quest for free.

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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.

Becoming Homeless on Meta Quest In this immersive virtual reality experience, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in an...

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.

Meta Explains Why The Ideal VR Session Is 20-40 Minutes Meta is telling developers that the ideal VR session length with today's hardware is 20-40 minutes, and has explained its reasoning.

Looks like someone at Meta has been doing their Stanford homework.

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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.

Meta Explains Why The Ideal VR Session Is 20-40 Minutes Meta is telling developers that the ideal VR session length with today's hardware is 20-40 minutes, and has explained its reasoning.

Looks like someone at Meta has been doing their Stanford homework.

www.uploadvr.com/meta-ideal-v...

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.

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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.

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@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.

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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...

Stanford’s 2025 VR Review: Top Pros & Cons Explained Discover Stanford’s 2025 VR review: five key psychological findings on when to use VR—and when a traditional screen suffices.

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Some interesting thoughts in here.

Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it’s struggled to become a megahit with consumers.

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“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

Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it’s struggled to become a megahit with consumers.

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
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Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it’s struggled to become a megahit with consumers.

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...