Fear of public speaking could be solved with a virtual audience
A project designed at USC enlists avatars that register hundreds of lifelike reactions. If your speech is good, so is the reception.
Bias-busting app from USC team excels at Facebook Global Hackathon
Known as Cue, the app uses virtual reality to eliminate gender bias in the workplace.
Using virtual reality — and mom’s sewing machine — for stroke rehab
Sook-Lei Liew builds a prototype with a laptop, an off-the-shelf VR rig, a $9 swim cap and a brain-computer interface system.
Young minds meet new technology at STEM-focused after-school program
USC’s Joint Educational Project introduces fourth- and fifth-graders to virtual reality, 3-D printing and drones.
Disney CEO Robert Iger talks tech and entertainment at USC event
USC Marshall’s Greif Center and USC Annenberg co-host their first summit on VR, artificial intelligence, digital media, gaming and e-sports.
USC Annenberg team uses virtual reality to tell a potentially disastrous story
The advanced techniques help to create a VR experience based on an investigative project in Houston.
Catch a ‘bird’s-eye view’ of virtual climate change at Santa Monica Pier
USC, Geological Survey and city of Santa Monica team up on a virtual reality installation that shows rising sea levels.
Who wants to show up as Gandalf at their next meeting?
Thanks to USC Viterbi Professor Hao Li, you may one day be able to do that in virtual reality.
Virtual reality-based rehab system could one day help people with Parkinson’s
Three USC researchers to develop program that would get individuals back on their feet, practicing the walking skills needed to navigate their communities.
Visual expert to lead USC institute’s graphics lab
Computer scientist Hao Li aims to modernize the way researchers capture, process and analyze data.
First virtual reality festival takes the technology into new realms
From improving memory to designing cities, one of the first student VR clubs in the nation stretches the limits of the movement.
Virtual interviews help people with autism land a job
USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Dan Marino Foundation partner on technology to improve social skills.
How lying computers could help train next-generation negotiators
Virtual humans — complete with realistic bargaining skills — may soon be a normal part of a business education.
With the release of Oculus Rift, what’s next for virtual reality?
USC experts, who helped develop VR technology, discuss the technical, business and content challenges facing the industry.
Stunning future in sight for virtual reality
‘E2: Evolution of Entertainment Conference’ brings together students and industry professionals.
Virtual Care Clinic lets patients control their health care experience
USC Center for Body Computing announces partners for its technology-driven program.
Is the (virtual) doctor in?
USC Body Computing Conference unveils medical breakthroughs, including a doctor who chats with her patient in the form of a hologram.
Overnight hackathon shows the promise of virtual reality as a health care tool
Scientists, therapists and health care specialists join forces to tackle problems in unexpected ways.
Forget the joysticks — let’s push the boundaries of virtual reality
Meet a computer science professor who wants people to move more naturally in immersive environments.
Alumni veterans experience virtual reality advances firsthand
Group sees the latest from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies — and how that technology can help the military.
‘Skip’ Rizzo honored for advances in virtual reality therapy
Institute for Creative Technologies researcher receives the Pioneer in Medicine Award for his work with brain injuries and PTSD.
Live from New York: Your digital future according to USC
Virtual reality. Humans wired for health. Digital sculptors crafting 3-D bodies with code, not clay. They’re all part of our high-tech future, shared by USC researchers at the Global Conversation in New York.
USC takes its digital innovations to New York
The USC 2014 Global Conversation will feature presentations by leading USC researchers and offer immersive reality demonstrations.
Mark Bolas redefines reality at USC School of Cinematic Arts
The Mixed Reality Lab pushes the boundaries of virtual reality and immersive technologies.