Gies Professor Using Virtual Reality to Make ‘Tax’ Less Taxing for Students
Angel Chatterton is incorporating virtual reality to teach these important tax concepts. For her Principles of Taxation course, Chatterton is using VR to simulate a real life Airbnb. She and…
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…
2020 Immersive Teaching, Learning, and Research Symposium
Due to the developing situation with COVID-19, the Immersive Teaching, Learning, and Research (ITLR) VR Symposium has been postponed until Fall semester of 2020.
Virtual Reality Featured in LAS News Publication
College of LAS faculty Laura Shackelford, Amy Clay, Bob Pahre, Cory Pettijohn, and Tricia Thrasher are featured in a recent cover story discussing the use of VR within their courses….
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…
JOUR 460: Extended Realities and Immersive Technologies
College of Media highlights a new Journalism course taught by Assistant Professor Chris Ball Besides gaining an understanding of the history and application of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed…
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…