by ICT Admin | Nov 10, 2017 | News
By Ron Mackovich, USC News Randall Hill ’78 was born on an Army base, and his life story revolves around the military. “My dad was in the Army, and he encouraged me to pursue my application to West Point,” Hill recalled. “He said, ‘Why don’t you just see if you can...
by ICT Admin | Nov 5, 2017 | News
The life-size image of Pinchas Gutter on a video screen, fidgeting, blinking and tapping his foot, seemed present and alive in the way portraits do in the magical world of Harry Potter. The Holocaust survivor, who lives in Toronto, was nowhere near the Museum of...
by ICT Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | News
Is VR addiction really something we need to worry about now? Currently, eye strain, cybersickness, and a lack of sense of touch in VR make it far less immersive than portrayed in sci-fi. You can’t yet plug in for hours and hours. “It’s not at a holodeck level yet. I...
by ICT Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | News
Illinois Holocaust Museum CEO Susan Abrams said the museum helped advance the project — New Dimensions in Testimony — a collaboration between the USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. “The survivors were filmed in a studio in L.A....
by ICT Admin | Nov 1, 2017 | News
Stories are effective because they appeal to a hardwired way that the human mind works. It’s our natural impulse to impose order and attach meaning to our observations. In a 1944 psychology experiment, participants watched a short animated film in which three...
