The Stress Resilience In Virtual Environments (STRIVE) project aims to create a set of combat simulations (adapted from existing Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan exposure therapy system) that are part of a multi-episode narrative experience. Users can be immersed within challenging combat contexts and interact with virtual characters within these episodes as part of an experiential learning approach. Such approaches, often referred to as Stress Inoculation Training, have been found to reduce the neuroendocrine response, increase coping competence and reduce cortisol response. STRIVE is currently developing three combat modules with a narrative arc that includes increasingly intense combat situations, relational development, stress and loss, and emotional trauma. The goal is to raise the service member's threshold for the stress of combat.

The Virtual Museum Guides are two virtual humans set in an exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston, designed to promote interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The primary audience is children between ages 7 to 14, in particular females and other groups under-represented in STEM.The Guides are based on and extend the approach used in the SGT Star character and the Gunslinger project. To interact with the characters, an operator presses a push-totalk button and speaks into a microphone. An audio acquisition client then sends audio to the automatic speech recognizer (ASR), which creates hypotheses of the words that were said, and then sends this text to the Language Understanding (LU) module.

The Sensory Environments Evaluation (SEE) Project seeks to formulate a new design methodology for virtual environments that utilize multiple sensory inputs to induce presence. Deviating from virtual reality's twenty-year focus on photo-realism, our "feels-real" design alternative aims directly at understanding the interdependencies of sensory stimuli in their creation of mental constructs, and the subsequent degree of realism perceived.