How Virtual Reality Can Help the Homeless

Jamilzaki thinks there are ways we might use technology to form connections with people whom we previously did not see as being like ourselves. He's done work looking at how virtual reality might help people identify with others whose lives are very different from ron. What we found was that this short simulation powerfully affected people's ampathy for the homeless. Even a month later, people who had gone through that simulation were less likely to dehumanize homeless individuals.