Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality
Inquiring Minds
English - April 16, 2018 20:25 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MB - ★★★★ - 821 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Society & Culture science neuroscience critical thinking female host interview Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We talk to the founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Jeremy Bailenson. Bailenson’s lab studies how virtual reality can affect empathy—how it makes you feel to virtually embody someone else. VR offers the ability to be in someone else’s shoes in a way that you can’t recreate in real life—and those immersive experiences, whether it be facing a day in the life of a person experiencing homelessness, or diving to the corals that are right now being bleached by climate change, have lingering effects on all of us.