Can Virtual Reality Help Us Tackle Climate Change?

“Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab found that VR is uniquely effective at changing conservation behavior, as shown in experiments about reducing paper use and hot water conservation. If a person has a VR experience of cutting down an old-growth redwood tree — feeling the vibration and sound of the chainsaw, the crash of the tree as it falls — that person is more likely to conserve paper…”

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