The BIOPAC virtual reality platform provides controlled and replicable experimental setups and allows manipulation of the environment (and avatars) that would be impossible or prohibitively expensive in the real world. Synchronization of events from the virtual world with physiological data from an MP System allows accurate and automated data analysis. The linking protocol allows you to use a feedback loop for greater control and automation of the VR world; change the VR world in real time, based on the subject's responses.

• The virtual reality platform includes VR protocol, VR Toolkit (WorldViz Vizard VR Toolkit/Developer edition interface software), VR demos/tutorials, VR environment resources, and VR hardware options, including actuators, scent delivery, and HMD.

 Review the VR & Stimulus Presentation Catalog online .

 Review VR demo options, including a video clip, tutorial worlds, Vizard tour,
   and a free 90-day trial to evaluate Vizard VR software.

Virtual environment samples for public speaking

 

Learn more about VR research...

 

 How, When, and Why to Use Digital Experimental Virtual Environments to Study Social Behavior - Social and Personality Psychology Compass; Cade McCall and Jim Blascovich of University of California, Santa Barbara - learn how Immersive Virtual Environmental Technology (IVET) is being used to create Digital Experimental Virtual Environments (DEVE) to investigate social psychological processes.

 

Virtual Reality: A Survival Guide for the Social Scientist -  Journal for Media Psychology; Jesse Fox, Dylan Arena, and Jeremy N. Bailenson of Stanford University - overview of the hardware and software required to create virtual reality experiments, plus a thorough overview of the current state of virtual reality research in the social sciences field.