Projects
Faculty
![Cy Keener on a boat looking out over the ocean](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/cy-crop.jpg?itok=2oap_81-)
Environmental Art
We deploy arctic ice trackers to artistically show how climate change is impacting sea levels.
![doctor using augmented reality to help a patient](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/medicine.jpg?itok=vc2ml9wD)
Emergency Care in AR
We are developing tools based in augmented reality to improve emergency medicine.
![two people in a room in front of a computer one in VR and one guiding them through the berlin wall VR experience](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/berlinwall.jpg?itok=ejnviYY1)
History in VR
We partnered with the Newseum in Washington D.C., to experience a virtual dash to freedom over the Berlin Wall.
![physically rendered green car on a black street with solid yellow line and blue sky with clouds in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/car.jpg?itok=0lPRb0Gk)
Physically-Based Rendering
We are developing algorithms to make objects appear more realistic in AR and VR
![woman wearing VR headset experiencing VR to better recall memory](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/memorypalace.jpg?itok=8SxSXvWq)
Memory Recall in VR
Our study found that people recall information better through a virtual reality headset opposed to a traditional desktop setting.
![multi-sensory exhibition by Shannon Collis](/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2021-11/shannon2.jpg?itok=Vjbs0EAU)
Immersive Spaces
We create multi-sensory exhibitions to experience public spaces in innovative, immersive ways.