How might virtual reality change the world? Stanford lab peers into future
From: CBS News - 06/18/2015
By: Ines Novacic

Virtual reality has the potential to promote a better understanding of what
it's like to be someone else - a refugee in a war zone, for example. Studying
the effects of those uses, and the psychological effects of VR use in
general, has always been the main focus of the lab. Jeremy Bailenson, the
director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford, listed how several
of his studies that focused on empathy - for example, making someone visually
impaired through VR - yielded results that demonstrated the VR experience
made participants more altruistic in real life.

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Links:
Virtual Human Interaction Lab
https://vhil.stanford.edu/

Jeremy Bailenson
http://web.stanford.edu/~bailenso/

The Effect of Embodied Experiences on Self-Other Merging, Attitude, and Helping
  Behavior
http://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2013/ahn-mp-embodied-experiences.pdf