Claim: The private university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford has a VR lab founded by Jeremy Bailenson named the Virtual Human Interaction Lab that offers free VR software and is at the front of the VR movement.
Evidence: Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university located in Stanford, California. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. The Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University. It was founded in 2003 by Jeremy Bailenson, associate professor of communication at Stanford University. The company's VR software is "free to any interested organization." According to the Los Angeles Times, it is at the "forefront" of the [virtual reality content] movement" in 2015, at which point Jeremy Bailenson remained the head of the organization.