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Comforting a virtual ‘child’ can help people with depression – Wired UK Highlights ICT’s Virtual Reality Therapy
ICT's virtual reality exposure therapy for PTSD is included in a Wired article on ways virtual reality experiences are being used to treat mental...
Survios’ First-Person Shooter Shows How Addictive VR Will Be – MxR Lab in TechCrunch
TechCrunch mentioned that Survios, a virtual reality startup that raised $4.2 million in funding, began when its founders worked at the USC...
Now You REALLY Can Get into the Game – Daily Mail Features Rapid Avatar Generator
The UK's Daily Mail featured a set of digital tools by Ari Shapiro of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and colleagues that will allow...
Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine – SimSensei in JAMA Viewpoint
An viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites Ellie, the clinical interviewer in ICT's SimSensei project as an...
Come on, Science. Give Us Animal Superpowers Already – Skip Rizzo in Wired
An article about science journalist Kara Platoni's new book We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are...
Virtual Reality: Poised to Bring Big Changes to Education? – Todd Richmond and ICT Tech in Education Week
An article about the growing trend of using virtual reality in education featured ICT's InVerse viewer and quoted Todd Richmond, ICT's director of...
Virtual Reality’s Promise, Risk Loom Large for Health Researchers – USA Today Features Skip Rizzo and ICT’s VR Therapy for PTSD
USA Today highlighted research by Skip Rizzo of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies on the use of virtual reality to treat veterans with...
Alelo, USC Team On Virtual Learning Technology – Coverage on SoCal Tech
SoCal Tech covered the news that Los Angeles-based Alelo, which develops game-based, role playing simulations and teaching technology, says that it...
The Step Needed to Make Virtual Reality More Real – MIT Tech Review Quotes Evan Suma
An MIT Tech Review article exploring how to make virtual reality more engaging looks at solutions that go beyond the game controller. If virtual...