Posted by vrcvanderbilt on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 in Digital Humanities, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Technology, VRC.

Tuesday, December 12, is “Demo Day” for the Wond’ry’s University Course “Virtual Reality for Interdisciplinary Applications” taught by Professors Bobby Bodenheimer and Ole Molvig. An end-of-semester demonstration of student-faculty projects was held late afternoon on the second floor of the Wond’ry.

Bodenheimer and Molvig were joined by eight other Vanderbilt faculty, including Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, who demonstrated creative approaches to the application of virtual reality (VR). Each student group and faculty mentor proposed and prototyped a VR experience of relevance to their mentor’s area of study. Lee has served as a faculty mentor, and her project area is Centennial Park in Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality.

Other faculty mentors participating in the demonstration were John Rieser, psychology (Singing with an Avatar); Maithilee Kunda, computer science (Memory and Visual Thinking; Memory Palace); Alan Peters, computer science (Computer Vision; 3D Stereographic Image Recovery); Bobby Bodenheimer, computer science (Navigation for Large 3D Environments); Ole Molvig, history of science (Impossible Spaces, Alternative Physics); Lynn Ramey, French (Medieval Cyprus Game; Cross-Cultural Storytelling); Steven Wernke, anthropology:(Excavations in Virtual Reality;  Preserve, Research, Share); Jay Clayton, English (Ready Player One; Create Aech’s Hideaway); and Gurjeet Birdee, medicine (BIometrics and Virtual Reality; Breathing and Meditation Research).

*Student demonstrating Mireille Lee’s project on Centennial Park in Virtual Reality (above); Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art, experiencing Steven Wernke’s project on Peruvian Excavations in Virtual Reality (below). Photographs courtesy Millie Fullmer