A new UMverse application for incoming students offered through “First Year Directions” (FYD) classes at the University of Miami will give them a chance to experience unique campus activities virtually.
First, a little background. Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) in Turku, Finland is the only exclusively Swedish language, multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). Looking to extend their campus into the immersive, virtual world of XR, a couple of years ago Podcast Host Tobias Andtfolk (ÅAU’s IT Projektchef, and IT Project Manager, ICT Services) bought a couple of headsets and began evaluating them with teacher and students. Read more “A Look at Where UM XR Started and Where it’s Going | Tom Merrick on The DUTAR Pod”→