Colin Kelly has lived all over the world. But when he visited Peru for the first time, he found himself fascinated with the landscape, people and the connection between them. Now Kelly, a senior majoring in geography, is creating a virtual reality application that incorporates both the scientific and social aspects of his visits to Peru.
A new general education course at University Park — GEOG 197 — will immerse students in the world of virtual reality, 360-degree video, augmented reality and more.
Researchers at Penn State Behrend and University Park are developing a virtual-reality simulation that will place engineering students in an interactive and immersive manufacturing environment. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with nearly $300,000 in funding.
With the help of Teaching and Learning with Technology staff and Penn State faculty, along with resources at the Dreamery, Penn State student Spenta Bamji created a unique internship that fortified her desire to become an educator.
A new class at being offered this fall at Penn State Lehigh Valley and Penn State Schuylkill is a video gamer's dream — or just the perfect thing if you have ever wanted to design your own virtual realm.
Penn State instructional designers are researching whether using virtual reality and 360-degree video can help students in online classes learn more effectively.
Thanks to a new virtual reality initiative at Penn State Altoona, recent graduates in the rail transportation engineering (RTE) program have traveled to Europe to create immersive learning experiences for future students.
Information Technology Services at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus demonstrated use of virtual reality technology for an integrative arts course on March 14 in the recently renovated Engineering and Arts Suite. Students will use the VR technology to design objects in virtual reality for the purpose of 3-D printing.
Penn State University Libraries’ recent gift from 2014 Penn State Alumni Fellow Bruce E. Blausen provides three years’ access to an extensive collection of digital images and video animations depicting human health and medical scenarios. The gift increases students’ online access to study detailed renderings and animated simulations, but the future student impact of the collection may offer even greater, immersive potential.
Virtual reality developers should be careful about incorporating too many fantasy effects if they want to program VR stories for journalists. If there are too many bells and whistles in a story, credibility could suffer, say researchers at Penn State.
A real-time, virtual building mapping and monitoring system developed for Penn State was named a finalist for a 2017 Bentley "Be Inspired" award.
Virtual reality is helping to break the barriers that exist when in-person, hands-on learning is impractical or impossible in higher education.
Researchers from Penn State have received $900,000 to teach computers how to generate original design ideas and then determine if those ideas are technically feasible which, in terms of national security, would give the United States a considerable competitive advantage in our technology industries.
Providing hands-on training options can be critical for student learning, but traveling to training sites is not always an option. Immersive technologies are helping to eliminate that roadblock for engineering students at Penn State Berks.
NASA invited Penn State Lehigh Valley instructor and FOX43 meteorologist Drew Anderson to the rocket launch of their newest communications satellite on Aug. 18 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Anderson captured the rocket launch on a virtual reality camera.
