Alyssa Julya Smith visited the USC Institute for Technology earlier this month where she learned about research being conducted in virtual reality from audio lead Jamison Moore and assistant professor Ari Shapiro.
Alyssa became an avatar herself, placed in a virtual world with the nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson. We talk how virtual reality is being implemented in educational settings and how the technology can add to a curriculum.
Meet Sprout, the $50K robot Amazon just acquired. It walks, talks and dances. And it's just the beginning of Big Tech's push to put humanoids in your home.
