“Empathy at Scale” What a delightful title for the new project at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL.) The project “seeks to design, test, and distribute virtual reality interventions that teach empathy.” The idea is that when people experience life through someone else’s eyes, they develop a more empathetic attitude toward them. The project is notable in that it is reaching outside the usual academic testing demographic of 20-something college students who want to earn $50 in a study. Instead, the project will collect data from around 1,000 participants who are ‘demographically diverse.” [Read more…]

Carnegie Mellon’s NoRilla project is a mixed-reality education platform to assist with science learning in young students. It makes use of a “depth camera” (Microsoft Kinect) to give personalized feedback.

From the conclusion of 2015 experiment: “Mixed-reality games that support physical observation in the real world have a great potential to enhance learning and enjoyment for young children.”

Source: http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/05/11/young-students-learn-better-with-mix-of-virtual-and-real-worlds.aspx?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed