U.S. Military Looks to Solve Old Problems with New Solutions

“When you combine performance capture that is autonomously driven with a lot of this biodata, it is going to change the way athletes train. It’s going to change the way that the military trains and operates, and it is going to change the way that we interact with the...

VR Brings Dramatic Change to Mental Health Care

Skip Rizzo, associate director for medical virtual reality at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, has been working with the U.S. Army on ways to use Virtual Reality (VR) to treat soldiers’ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for over a decade. His system,...

Interactive Holocaust Project Opens Thursday

The USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies will open the first permanent installation of their interactive Holocaust project on Thursday after over five years of work. The installation, New Dimensions in Testimony, features extensive...

SHARP Academy Tests Virtual Victim

Army Spc. Jarett Wright was hazed and sexually assaulted while deployed to Iraq in 2010. Students from the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Academy had the opportunity to interview Wright Oct. 12, even though he wasn’t speaking to them at the time....