10/09/2025
Extended Reality via AI, VR and AR technologies pioneered by Albert Skip Rizzo Ph.D., has revolutionized the delivery of patient-centered mental health care, offering innovative, engaging and effective therapies that are changing the treatment landscape for medical professionals and relief-seekers.
As a clinical psychologist and Director of the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) Medical VR Lab and Research Professor at the University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences and USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Dr. Rizzo has spent more than three decades at the forefront of clinical virtual reality, conducting research on the design, development and evaluation of VR systems across the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in healthy and clinical populations.
In my interview for the Visual Effects Society's Magazine, Dr. Rizzo shares his current views on the dynamic field of VR-based therapy, the deepening of his trauma-based work, and harnessing AI and digital humans. Read on....
Dr. “Skip” Rizzo on innovations in the field of VR-based therapy.