It was such an honour and amaz­ing expe­ri­ence to present at TEDxEastVan on September 16^th! Below are some first pic­tures, the video will be released later in October and will be posted here.

My TEDx talk was titled “Could Virtual Reality Make us More Human” and includ­ed some of our recent research and exam­ples from my teach­ing on immer­sive envi­ron­ments. Here’s some of the ideas in a nutshell:

Virtual real­i­ty is becom­ing increas­ing­ly acces­si­ble and afford­able, and offers the unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­vide first-hand and embod­ied expe­ri­ences. How could we use this poten­tial to go beyond enter­tain­ment and gaming, for cre­at­ing pos­i­tive or even trans­for­ma­tion­al http://theshoalspharmacy.com expe­ri­ences we might oth­er­wise not be able to have? And how could we democ­ra­tize the medium and put this pow­er­ful tech­nol­o­gy into the cre­ative hands of more people?

See http://tedxeastvan.com/ for details

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