Recode Decode: Jeremy Bailenson, author, 'Experience on Demand'

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do." Bailenson came to Stanford to study how people can communicate with each other in a virtual world, but now his focus is on how VR can motivate us to eat less, help the homeless or have empathy with a person of another race, gender or age. He discusses why the technology has not yet taken off among consumers and why tech and media companies are wrong to think we should be spending hours at a time in a VR headset. Plus: Why telling a story in virtual reality is so much harder than telling one on a 2-D screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is sponsored by Synchrony Financial.
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0:11.6	whatever you're working on.
0:13.3	Learn more at SynchronyFinancial.com.
0:19.1	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you
0:22.1	from the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:25.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:28.2	You may know me as someone who believes we are living in the matrix.
0:30.9	The news is so ridiculous that someone has to be writing it.
0:33.7	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode,
0:36.9	a podcast about tech and media's key players,
0:38.9	big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:41.4	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts,
0:44.6	Spotify, Google Play Music, or ever you listen to podcasts.
0:47.9	Or just visit recode.net slash podcast for more.
0:53.2	Today in the Red Chair is Jeremy Balancin,
0:56.0	the founder of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University
1:00.0	where we are taping this podcast.
1:02.0	He's also a professor in Stanford's Communication Department
1:05.1	and is the author of a new book called Experience on Demand.
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