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Prof in Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel, and Director of the Advanced Reality Lab. We don't understand the future, so we try to create it
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Authors: Jonathan Giron, Or Yizhar, Mohr Wenger, Debbie Chetrit, Gilad Ostrin, Amir Amedi & Doron Friedman.
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Can XR flip your hands left-to-right—and can you learn to use them anyway?
At NeuroXR @ ISMAR 2026, we’ll present EEG findings on adapting to sustained hand-switching in VR.
Led by Jonathan Giron.
#ISMAR2026 #NeuroXR #XR #EEG
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AI is changing virtual humans—not just how they look, but how they perceive, communicate, and adapt.
At ISMAR 2026, Doron Friedman will speak about AI for virtual humans in XR.
seevrlab.com/VHT2026/
#ISMAR2026 #XR #VirtualHumans
🕊️ Years before October 7th — when VR was the exciting new medium, and there was some optimism about peace in the Middle East — we set out to study whether VR could help with conflict resolution. A last paper of this series is (finally) out in Psychology of Violence (APA). 🧵
Findings: among majority-group viewers, visible activists increased willingness to compromise across the political spectrum — but the effect wasn't consistent across samples and didn't hold among minority participants. Group status & power asymmetry shape whether activism lands.
By Shani Fachter, @DaphnaCanetti, Béatrice Hasler, Jonathan Levy, Doron Friedman & Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom · VR: Daniel Landau · w/ @PolPsyLabDC @ReichmanUni
📄 doi.org/10.1037/vio0000713
Findings: among majority-group viewers, visible activists increased willingness to compromise across the political spectrum — but the effect wasn't consistent across samples and didn't hold among minority participants. Group status & power asymmetry shape whether activism lands.
By Shani Fachter, @DaphnaCanetti, Béatrice Hasler, Jonathan Levy, Doron Friedman & Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom · VR: Daniel Landau · w/ @PolPsyLabDC @ReichmanUni
📄 doi.org/10.1037/vio0000713
For years multi-agent RL has treated emergent behavior as something to observe: run the sim, watch the commons collapse, publish. We kept asking the inverted question — what if you could regulate it? 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2608.07280
Emergent bonus: Joint-Episode's learned reward encodes structure we never coded — it down-weights harvesting under local apple scarcity (F > 15, p < .001); Local-Trajectory does not. The reward model rediscovers sustainability on its own.
Kept honest: proof of concept, Harvest Game, 5 agents, IPPO. But the reframing holds — emergent multi-agent behavior can be a target of principled, data-driven regulation, not only an object of study.
Work with Assaf Caftory, @almogze7 & Moshe Butman · arxiv.org/abs/2608.07280