Three students working in FIU’s Mobile Virtual Reality Lab presented and demonstrated their work in virtual reality eco-journalism to crowds at the at the Oct. 28, 2016 opening of FIU’s Digital Scholar Studio. The Studio, in FIU’s Green Library Room 540, is part of a large technology fee through the FIU Library that provides technology and

Highland Village, a neighborhood at the center of one of our VR narratives this semester, experienced flooding during this week’s King Tide. The video will be complete at the end of semester and will tell stories of the neighborhood’s experience with a changing environment.

Sixty students in Dr. Robert Gutsche’s Audience Analysis class this week experienced virtual reality — most for the first time. By viewing the work of their peers, they were able to experience how audiences might experience new spaces, places, and issues. The next step: Learning how to measure the experiences and influence messages. Photographs by Julio

Baynews.tv, an FIU student production, featured the work of the Mobile Virtual Reality Lab and its role in telling stories about rising seas. View below.

VirtualEYES has received $2,000 from the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) to film several of its facilities in immersive formats. The facilities include: School of Communication + Journalism Studio (pictured above) and Control Room CARTA’s Miami Beach Urban Studios CARTA’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center

Our first attempt — a sneak peek. To view this video you may insert your device into a virtual reality headset or use your cursor to travel through the video on Google Chrome or use one of the options below. VR headset On the YouTube App, find the Google Cardboard logo on the bottom-right corner.

By Nomi Hernandez-Leiva and Natalia Quiñones A couple of weeks have passed since this fall semester began, and the first wave of students have already declared the Mobile Virtual Reality Lab as their own. This is the first semester that the lab is up and running, and we have already come across some challenges. This,

FIU students will be presenting their VR work at the Eighth Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, in October. Check out our poster, below.

Students from eyesontherise.org/virtualEYES and related arts projects showed off their work at a recent opening of FIU’s Sea Level Solutions Center. VR work was a big hit for those wanting to see what our environments look like — all around them.   Visitors could hardly keep their hands off of the headsets.   Professor Robert