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Creative Technologies, Fall 2023

“Mangrove City” Wins AWE XR Prize Challenge | Education

August 26, 2023

“Mangrove City“, a VR experience geared towards educating middle schoolers on the crucial role mangrove forests play in protecting coastal communities and mitigating climate change, took home the XR prize for the Educate category at the AWE 2023 Awards. This collaborative project was submitted as part of the “XR Challenge: Fight Climate Change.”

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Spring 2023, Virtual Reality

“Nurture VR” Study Uses Virtual Reality to Enhance Maternal Mental Health

January 18, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets have mostly been popularized by children—and some adults—playing immersive video games. But a team of researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine led by Azizi Seixas the Principal Investigator of the study, Director of the U’s Media and Innovation Lab (“The MIL”), and Director of Population Health Informatics […]

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Augmented Reality, Fall 2022, Virtual Reality

Magic Leap 2 Launch Event at UM Lakeside Village 9/20

August 30, 2022

The Magic Leap 2 is here and we will be hosting a launch event on September 20 at the University of Miami Lakeside Village Auditorium.  This event will feature customer use case presentations from Magic Leap, Unity, PeakActivity, and others, followed by an AMA (Ask Me Anything Q&A Session) and a networking reception.

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Creative Technologies, Extended Reality, Spring 2022

COVER STORY: UM Leaps Into The Metaverse

January 29, 2022

Léa Dorne still vividly remembers visiting a Syrian refugee camp and standing inside a family’s United Nations trailer in Jordan. But she wasn’t actually in the Middle East. Dorne observed the family’s reality through an Oculus Quest headset while watching a film shot in virtual reality (VR).

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Spring 2022, Virtual Reality

VR/AR Association Miami Chapter Launch Event 2/17

January 29, 2022

The VR/AR Association (VRARA) in partnership with the University of Miami’s XR Initiative and Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) will host a Miami Chapter Launch event on February 17, 2022, 5:30-8:00 PM at the University of Miami Cosford Cinema (located on campus at 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146), or you may […]

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