Treating Mental Health with Virtual Reality

Mental health issues affect many of us in our daily lives. Whether it’s from stress or anxiety, depression, or some other form of mental health, it’s something that affects most people in one way or another. It’s estimated that as many as one in five people in the...

Avatar Technology from USC Captures Your Body in 20 Minutes

The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment. Ari Shapiro runs a research group called the Character Animation Simulation Research Group and one of its goals is to create a digital person that can...

The Virtual Doctor Will See You Now

Virtual doctors could bring health information to patients’ smartphones with a new app being developed at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies and Center for Body Computing. Reuters reports on the story. Click here to...