Be Wary of Robot Emotions; ‘Simulated Love is Never Love’

“When we interact with another human, dog, or machine, how we treat it is influenced by what kind of mind we think it has,” said Jonathan Gratch, a professor at University of Southern California who studies virtual human interactions. “When you feel something has...

DCS 2019: Saving Soldiers Using Clinical VR

The virtual approach not only was accepted by soldiers with PTSD, it seemed to have won the day over real humans, in dramatic results shown to the SPIE audience this week. Albert “Skip” Rizzo III, a leading Virtual Reality innovator for 20 years, and professor of...