April 27, 2017
UC San Diego virtual reality faculty experts are launching a three-course series on edX as one of the first Professional Certificate programs offered by the online learning platform.
August 28, 2015
Experts from academia and industry will share insights into the future of virtual-reality technologies and content at the first Future of Virtual Reality Conference Sept. 8-9, organized by the Qualcomm Institute on the UC San Diego campus.
May 23, 2017
On May 22, the institute hosted 150 high school students and 50 UC San Diego undergraduates as part of a San Diego regional program to excite students about fast-growing job opportunities in the region.
May 31, 2017
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano keyboard.
May 11, 2017
…Diego, Connor Smith says VR interest is at an all-time high among undergraduate students at UC San Diego. “We were lucky to see anyone here in the lab before winter quarter,” added Smith. “Now, we’re absolutely packed much of the time, and membership will continue surging, particularly from students enrolled…
October 21, 2015
Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.
May 11, 2017
…system in the newly-opened VR Lab. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow’s Virtual (Reality) Economy Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates The laboratory looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer…
March 1, 2018
…users new to the VR environment to explore what’s possible in the virtual world. Photo credit Robin Xu/ UC San Diego VR Club UC San Diego Hosts Its First Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality Hackathon Anish Kannan, a fourth year computer science student at UC San Diego, had no interest in…
October 31, 2016
The University of California San Diego’s iconic, futuristic spaceship of a building, Geisel Library, will unveil its first virtual-reality 3-D display system during a public reception on Monday, November 7 from 10 am to noon. The life-size CAVEkiosk will be open to the campus community and the public at large,…
December 1, 2016
…Virtual Reality Virtual reality (VR) headsets such as the Oculus Rift will line store shelves this holiday season, and UC San Diego alumni startup Nanome, Inc. plans to capitalize on that by creating VR apps for the consumer market, the classroom, and beyond. Nanome co-founder Steven McCloskey was part of…
