{"id":2557,"date":"2017-02-08T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learning.richmond.edu\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:39:56","slug":"vr-news-and-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2017\/02\/08\/vr-news-and-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"VR News and Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTLT science liaison, <a href=\"mailto:abell4@richmond.edu\">Andrew Bell<\/a>, leads the Center&#8217;s\u00a0efforts in\u00a0evaluating virtual and augmented reality technologies for\u00a0teaching, learning and research at UR.\u00a0Thanks to Andrew&#8217;s efforts, there is now a community of practice which includes interested individuals on campus eager to learn more about these\u00a0emerging technologies. If you&#8217;re interested in joining the community, <a href=\"mailto:abell4@richmond.edu\">just e-mail Andrew<\/a>. Latest\u00a0VR@UR news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew has created an online <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/vratur\/\">VR@UR Newsletter<\/a> <\/strong>that\u00a0covers the developing landscape and culture surrounding VR\/AR technologies. Check it monthly!<\/li>\n<li>We have scheduled two <strong>VR Open Houses<\/strong> on Feb. 9th &amp; 23rd 1-4pm. Come to our VR-HTC Vive portal in Jepson (next to the C&amp;P lounge) to travel the world with Google Earth VR, paint a virtual masterpiece in Tilt-brush, or navigate through The Body in VR.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learning.richmond.edu\/events\/index.php\/95-virtual-reality-in-the-classroom?date=2017-04-05-12-00\">Register for a Pizza and Pedagogy<\/a> that focuses on faculty\/student discussion about their using VR technologies in the classroom and student research here at UR.<\/li>\n<li>Request a demo or project using our VR technologies by <a href=\"mailto:abell4@richmond.edu\">sending e-mail to Andrew Bell<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTLT science liaison, Andrew Bell, leads the Center&#8217;s\u00a0efforts in\u00a0evaluating virtual and augmented reality technologies for\u00a0teaching, learning and research at UR.\u00a0Thanks to Andrew&#8217;s efforts, there is now a community of practice which includes interested individuals on campus eager to learn more about these\u00a0emerging technologies. If you&#8217;re interested in joining the community, just e-mail Andrew. Latest\u00a0VR@UR news: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86539,86546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immersive-technologies","category-teaching-and-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}