Lectures

Aquatic VR Study Presentation

Assistant Professor, Géraldine Fauville, presents findings from the first study on the combined effects of physical immersion in water and visual immersion in a VR activity (a pairing coined “double immersion”) on vection and motion sickness.

Stanford VHIL VR Research Roundup 2020

What has the Virtual Human Interaction Lab been up to over the last year? Tune in for 5 talks from PhD students, Postdocs and Professor Jeremy Bailenson on VHIL’s most recent work.

NYU School of Law

The Virtues of Virtual Reality: How Immersive Technology Can Reduce Bias

Bailenson explores the promise — and pitfalls — of using virtual reality technology as an empathy-building tool.

UW Reality Lab Lectures

Experience on Demand

With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they’re real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a future beyond fantasy and escapism?

mediaX

Detecting Mindstate and Emotion

From the April 29th 2014, mediaX2015 Conference, “Well-being & Productivity in a Globally Connected World“, Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford Communication, Virtual Human Interaction Lab showcases his research using VR to help create new mindstates.

Samsung Forum

What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, covers insights on VR from his new book, “Experience on Demand,” about how VR can be put to use – not to distance ourselves from reality, but to enrich our lives and influence us to treat others, the environment, and even ourselves better.

Talks at Google

What is Virtual Reality?

With well-crafted simulations, virtual experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they’re real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a future beyond fantasy and escapism? Talk given by Jeremy Bailenson.

Stanford Computer Forum

Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Can and Can’t Do

Virtual reality is now reality for businesses and society. It’s quickly making its way into mainstream digital life, and the implications for business and lifestyle alike are extraordinary. In this talk Jeremy Bailenson reviews two decades of research and implementation to explore the tangible applications of virtual reality, and how it can and should be used.

TED

Can VR help create empathy around climate change?

As climate change continues to destroy our oceans, ecosystem and wildlife, VR could be a powerful tool to create empathy and drive action. Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, demos his VR climate change simulator that takes users on a journey through dying coral reefs and more.

mediaX

The Trials and Tribulations of Narrative in VR

From the October 24th mediaX Sensing and Tracking for 3D Narratives Conference, Jeremy Bailenson looks at the Ocean Acidification Project that allows users to stand in heavy traffic and follow carbon dioxide molecules from car tailpipes to the sea, where they are absorbed.

Robobank

2015 Leadership Forum

Jeremy Bailenson’s presentation on the applications and the future of virtual reality captivated the audience at the 2015 Rabobank Client Appreciation Events.

mediaX

Experience on Demand

Real experiences can change you, and virtual reality experiences can feel like real ones so virtual reality experiences can change you too. Jeremy Bailenson delves into how to create these experiences, on demand, that will change who we are as people.

Stanford Report

Immersive Science Learning in Virtual Reality

At the “Thinking Big About Learning” symposium at Stanford, Jeremy Bailenson discussed how virtual reality can be used to teach about the potential effects of climate change on coral reefs and marine life.

NEEA

Using Virtual Experiences to Increase Energy Efficiency

Keynote speaker Professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, discusses how virtual reality and new technologies can affect consumers and energy consumption behavior.

Talks at Google

Infinite Reality: Revealing the Blueprints of our Virtual Lives

Infinite Reality explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications will mean for the future of human life and society. Along the way, Bailenson and Blascovich examine the timeless philosophical questions of the self and “reality” that arise through the digital experience.

Stanford University

Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds

Jeremy Bailenson shares his research on virtual reality, avatars, transformed social interaction, and related communication and psychological theories, as well as implications for citizens living in the digital age.

Commonwealth Club of California

Infinite Reality

Advances in our understanding of how the brain works, combined with the explosion of immersive digital technology, could make ideas as far-fetched as total “personality downloads” possible — meaning your great-grandchildren would be able to know and have conversations with you in the future, all in a virtual setting indistinguishable from reality. Bailenson posits that such advances could be here in just five years.

VHIL Research Stanford Alumni Talk

VHIL’s director, Jeremy Bailenson, gives a presentation about his research on avatars, his Transformed Social Interactions (TSI) theory, and new communication technologies.