by ICT Admin | Jun 12, 2015 | News
Mark Bolas was quoted in a Wired story about the Oculus Touch, a two-handed interface that brings haptic feedback and a sense of touch to the VR experience. “There is a special place in virtual reality—we call it Near-Field VR,” says Mark Bolas, director for mixed...
by ICT Admin | Jun 11, 2015 | News
Mashable featured Bravemind, ICT’s virtual reality exposure therapy treatment for PTSD as part of a a series on technology that empowers and inspires. The story focused on veteran Chris Merkle who found relief from his PTSD when he used the system as part of a...
by ICT Admin | Jun 10, 2015 | News
Austin affiliate KEYE-TV featured Bravemind, a virtual reality program designed by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies to treat PTSD. Veterans can experience virtual wartime environments, 3D sound and even actual smells. “It has been proven that if the...
by ICT Admin | May 20, 2015 | News
NPR’s All Things Considered and Planet Money featured ICT’s SimSensei project which uses a virtual human and sensing technologies to help detect signs of depression and PTSD. The stories explained that Ellie, ICT’s virtual human interviewer, listens...
by ICT Admin | May 20, 2015 | News
A Harvard Business Review article on trust and robots featured ICT research on how to make computers more like humans. “The more you add lifelike characteristics, and particularly the more you add things that seem like emotion, the more strongly it evokes these...
