Daily Illini Features Campus VR Infrastructure Upgrades

VR technology initiatives seek further support to provide more experiences in academia   Read the full story here.

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Jump ARCHES Partnership Expands Grant Opportunities

The Jump ARCHES (Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation) has expanded its grant allowance as well as it’s diversity of projects.  Some new categories include: Social and…

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IDEA Lab VR Workshop in the News

A WCIA news crew visited the IDEA lab during a recent VR workshop to highlight the use of VR in education.  See the broadcast here.

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Virtual Reality Film Debuts at Ebert Symposium

The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning provided VR headsets for attendees at the recent Ebert Symposium to view a student-created 360º film. “The Drive” is a virtual reality film…

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Submit a Grant Proposal for your VR Project

The VR@Illinois campus network, with generous support from Technology Services, is offering seed grants to University of Illinois faculty, students, and staff to support the development of innovative research and…

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Latest VR and AR Headsets Available

You can now try out some of the latest virtual and augmented reality headsets on campus.  The Media Commons and IDEA Lab at Grainger recently purchased the new Valve Index…

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Innovation Studio 2019 Upgrade

With generous support from Tech Services, CITL’s Innovation Studio in Armory room 172 has added fourteen VR workstations each with an Oculus Rift S headset attached. This updated classroom will be…

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Virtual Reality Club at UIUC

The new VR Club at UIUC will hold it’s first VR Open Hours on April 17th. Join them to Explore, Play, and Learn more about Virtual Reality technologies. https://www.facebook.com/VRclubatUIUC/

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VR Demos at Ebertfest

VR Demos at Ebertfest

The schedule is out for this year’s Roger Ebert’s Film Festival hosted by Chaz Ebert, or “Ebertfest,” coming to Champaign-Urbana April 10-13. An added feature of this year’s festival will…

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