Story as a Protective Device: Skip Rizzo on VR Storytelling

Published: April 12, 2019, 8 a.m.

Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Research Director at University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies for Medical Virtual Reality is a legend. Having done research into virtual reality’s impact on psychological, cognitive and motor functioning for decades, Skip shares in this episode how storytelling can go beyond pure entertainment and have life-altering consequences. Justine Harcourt de Tourville, VRTL’s Editor-in-Chief, dives right into this fascinating conversation with the “Ayatollah of VR”  taped live in Skip Rizzo’s LA office.