Scientists Hope VR Can Change Human Behavior And Curb Climate Change
Scientists at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab are using virtual reality in the hopes that it can change human behavior and curb climate change. The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, which was founded in 2003, has been using augmented and virtual reality to help influence human interaction. Some of their previous work includes integrating VR into the classroom, using VR to help users feel empathy, and studying the psychology of augmented reality.
While this research can help improve the understanding of environmental change in the world's youth, the IPCC report explicitly states that in 20 years the world will be facing a climate catastrophe. While this research and software are altruistic in nature using virtualreality is going to do little to reverse the effect of climate change when world leaders are the ones who must act.
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