VR Grant Kick-off

Research Presentation: Video Production Style and Learning Outcomes

Supporting Graduate Researcher Haley Cabaniss

CITL’s VR Lab assisted with the rendering of 360º videos taken by grad student Haley Cabaniss several hundred miles on the coast of Oregon at the Axial Seamount.

Archeology VR Experience

Professor Laura Shackelford, working with campus colleagues, has developed an educational VR experience for students. CITL’s VR Lab will support alpha testing of this experience during the Fall 2018 term.  

Virtual Reality to Improve Emotional Well-being

Dr. Rosalba Hernandez, professor of social work, is interested in researching the potential of VR to deliver an immersive psychotherapeutic module in hemodialysis patients. Read about Dr. Hernandez’s research at Forbes    

Using VR to Acquire Phrasal Verbs

“The main pillars of VR being built on are: immersion, sensory feedback, authenticity, and interaction. The first three features are dependent upon interaction to be able to be properly implemented (Dawley, 2007). These features make VR an ideal tool for second language acquisition as they can enhance immersion, promote interaction, and can provide a more […]

Research Expo at the College of Law

We took PlaystationVR on the road to the Law Building during their Research Expo to share a United Nations 360 video production about a Syrian refugee in Clouds Over Sidra. Many attendees hadn’t experience VR before and were interested in learning more about how it might be used in their field.