Fashion Illustration Students Explore VR
Art & Design Instructor Chiara Vincenzi’s Fashion Illustration course visited CITL’s Innovation Studio to explore using Google Tilt Brush for quickly prototyping dress designs. Students spent 60 minutes to hone…
VR@Illinois Fall Meet-Up
The VR@Illinois network is hosting an informal get together on November 19th at 4pm. We’ll be meeting at the IDEA Lab in the basement of Grainger Engineering Library to discuss…
Step Into Virtual Reality Workshop
Come and join us in the Ikenberry Commons: Student Dining and Residential Programs (SDRP) building and learn how Virtual Reality works, ask questions, and playtest our Oculus Go, Oculus Quest,…
News Gazette Interview with ECE Faculty Raluca Ilie
This week, meet RALUCA ILIE, a professor in the University of Illinois’ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is transforming the way her students learn by using virtual reality…
VR Seeds Grants Awarded
VR@Illinois saw an overwhelming response to our call for VR and AR-related projects. We received 63 seed grant proposals from 37 different departments across campus. With our available funds we were able to provide financial support to 17 of these projects with an additional 24 in-kind awards offered.
I-Stem Article on VR Language Acquisition Research
The I-Stem Education Initiative highlighted the research of Tricia Thrasher in a recent online publication. Can virtual reality (VR) be used to decrease foreign language anxiety and increase students’ oral…
LAS article on growth in virtual reality
“Inside certain classrooms at the University of Illinois, it’s possible to go deep-sea diving to a sunken ship and witness a 100-foot blue whale—all without leaving Champaign County. With virtual…
Daily Illini Features Campus VR Infrastructure Upgrades
VR technology initiatives seek further support to provide more experiences in academia Read the full story here.
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…
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.