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,
Posts
Presenting Our Project — Again
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.
VR, Art & Music at Sea Level Solutions Center Opening
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
First Try: Experience Mangroves in VR
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. Click the logo, then insert your mobile
How to Have a Healthy VR Experience
Entering virtual reality might seem like the safest way to go on an adventure without having to worry about falling off of a cliff, being eaten by a bear or stuck in a snowstorm. It is, after all, virtual. Just because it’s not tangible, though, doesn’t mean you have nothing to worry about. Like with
Making Music — With Water
One of our projects for Fall is to use data gathered from water on the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus to create original music. Check out that project here. We will be using conductivity sensors (at right) to capture data and will soon be determining the digital music software we will use. Below, we have identified the spaces throughout
Working on Highland Village
One of our focuses for the Fall semester is to visualize what rising waters might look like for Highland Village, a mobile home park in North Miami, Florida, mapped above. See a previous post about the project here. See the neighborhood’s demographics here. Using the eyesontherise.org Sea Level Rise Toolbox to measure the topography (see below) and related
‘Abe’: A Horror Experience in First Person Virtual Reality
Like never before, virtual reality allows viewers to enter a world of reality. “Abe VR” is a short virtual reality experience. The 7-minute VR film is about a misguided robot who tortures beautiful women who turn down his love. Through the VR lenses, you are able to experience his victims’ torture from a first person experience. In
4 ways to use VR (other than gaming)
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the revolution to the gaming world that virtual reality presents from companies like Microsoft, Sony and HTC. What you may not have heard, though, are some of the other ways that VR narratives are changing digital media. Whether you’re a gamer or not, here are four (of many)
Prepping for a New Crew
One of the hardest things, for some of us, in bringing innovation to the classroom is turnover. Another semester starts and then ends. Some students get to stay on — if they haven’t graduated — but even then, with work and other classes, it’s often time to start fresh. The next semester brings students from