@stanfordvr.bsky.social
For two decades we have built and studied VR/AR systems that explore the changes in the nature of social interaction. We research how virtual experiences impact people psychologically, and focus on education, nonverbal behavior, climate change & empathy.
Underwater VR!
Floating free (compared to being docked in water or on dry land) caused more psychological ocean connection and positive emotions. Floaters believed they had drifted 4 meters even though they were stationary (i.e., vection).
Santoso and colleagues: vhil.stanford.edu/publications...
Underwater VR!
Floating free (compared to being docked in water or on dry land) caused more psychological ocean connection and positive emotions. Floaters believed they had drifted 4 meters even though they were stationary (i.e., vection).
Santoso and colleagues: vhil.stanford.edu/publications...
What if you had a real encounter, then used genAI to model it, and weeks later relived the memory in VR?
Largescale, longitudinal study by @portiawang.bsky.social at JCMC.
Reliving past memories caused groups to be better, in speech, in gestures, and in outcomes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAqf...
What if you had a real encounter, then used genAI to model it, and weeks later relived the memory in VR?
Largescale, longitudinal study by @portiawang.bsky.social at JCMC.
Reliving past memories caused groups to be better, in speech, in gestures, and in outcomes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAqf...
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...
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
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/...
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.
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.
18.09.2025 22:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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
02.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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.
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.
13.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0