Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson details how.

VR can help predict how people will interact in the real world

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VR can predict how people will interact in the real world


VR can help predict how people will interact in the real world


Okay. You've you've learned a lot about human interaction in the real world through studying people in VR and how they interact. Um tell us about synchrony. What is it and why is it important? So synchrony if you made everyone please stand up please. Okay. And I want you to march left up, right up, left, up, right up, left up. Ok, sit down now, who does this marching bands? The military? Why do we do it? Because there's a line of research when you move your bodies together, it actually causes you to become a more tightly knit group. Hundreds of studies on this and that measure of century. The correlation among our movements. You can actually use that as a predictor to see how collaborative team is how creative they're being. And we've done studies in my lab for the last 20 years where we used synchrony as a measure to figure out how well the group is moving. The cool thing about VR is that all the body movements are tracked. In other words we are only works if there is a text file that details every micro movement 90 times a second of how you moved your head hands and feet so you can dump that to a file. And we're building machine learning algorithms that are the most elaborate understanding of synchrony in history because no one has had data of precise movement like this in large groups and in the stanford class we have 30 groups, the image for 10 weeks, half an hour at a time. We tracked all the data at 90 hertz. They gotta test afterwards and we're now building models of how to group bodies move and how does that group movement predict? A collaborative outcome. So you can basically automatically figure out how well your team is doing from how they're moving in real time. Um We, a lot of us heard john Hanke speak yesterday and he, I took some notes uh to remember them for my conversation with you today. Um Jeremy appreciated this. I wrote down, john Hanke said uh VR is a niche application and my auto correct, wrote it down as VR is a bit application so he didn't like either one of those. Um but explain what you think, why you don't think it's going to be a niche application where you do think it's going with enterprise with training. Yeah, thank you. The Silicon Valley is in the world in the sense that if your user curve doesn't go like this 2 100 million users in a year that you have a failed product. And and to me that's just maddening to me, it's just manage to be VR. When I started doing this there was about 100 headsets in the late 1990s in 2015 before mark buys Oculus there's maybe 3, 4000, maybe 5000 in the world and there's now about 10 to 20 million in the U. S. And I love the slope of that curve er is an intense medium. You can't see the world around you. It gives you incredibly powerful experiences. I like it moving a little slow. You know, the biggest use case that we're seeing. So I've co founded a company called strivers striver began using very to train quarterbacks, quarterbacks have put on the goggles, read the defense, make decisions, practice, where they're going to make their looks practice, they're going to change the play that evolved to working with enterprise. So the first enterprise customers walmart where holiday rush the day after thanksgiving the hardest VR simulation I've ever done is putting on those goggles and this cacophony of people screaming at you and running at you and you get to practice who you're going to look at and what you're going to say. Um last year we trained one million walmart Associates using VR. It's scaled use. And so when jOHn says VR is a niche, sure it's we use we are for things that it is meant for. We use, we are to solve really hard problems and I'm comfortable with that. What's not, I don't want you guys reading your email interviewer headset, you have other things for that. And, and john may want you reading email in his Niantic classes someday. He and I have to agree to disagree to, I want to use the car for the things that is perfect for things that are dangerous in the real world, impossible to do in the real world, Counterproductive or expensive. He just wants, everyone needs