Stories

Using VR to Build Empathy

Accounting faculty, Dr. Justin Leiby sent Master’s students from his Risk Management & Innovation course to CITL’s Virtual Reality Lab to complement in-class work on empathy-building. “Understanding decision makers’ emotions is…

Virtual Reality Interest Grows Across Campus

With the addition of 16 new VR workstations last summer, The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning is seeing a surge of interest in virtual reality as an educational…

Immersive Learning Research Network 2020 Conference

“Vision 20/20: Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight in XR and Immersive Learning” iLRN 2020: 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network San Luis Obispo, California, USA June 21–25, 2020…

Latest VR and AR headsets on display at CES 2020

VR@Illinois representatives visited the Consumer Electronics Show in January to test out the latest virtual and augmented headsets and explore the potential of haptics for education use. Besides the 4K…

UIDEA Demo Day Presentation

Jim Wentworth and Jamie Nelson from the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning led a conversation about virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and how advancement and philanthropy might benefit…

Virtual Reality Club at UIUC

The Virtual Reality Club at UIUC has been working to perfect mixed reality recording and streaming.  This demo video shows Daniel Connelly working on his Beat Saber skills. Learn more…