This project is the result of a CALS grant from SU Sustainability Office that was awarded to Amber Bartosh (Architecture) and Mark Povinelli (Engineering & Computer Science). Students in their collaborative class have created a responsive, interactive installation “The Climate Disruptor Awareness Generator” meant to engage others in learning about sustainability and demonstrate to students the impact of climate change. It will have virtual and augmented reality components.            The two faculty approached Dean of the Libraries David Seaman early in...

Daniel Sproll Realities.io I interviewed Daniel Sproll, co-founder of the VR Company Realities.io based in Berlin, Germany. Realities is a company which uses photogrammetry to create extremely realistic scenes of hard to reach places for people to access in virtual reality. Daniel Sproll and David Finsterwalder founded the company and the goal of Realities is to bring real world places into VR as they are, keeping as much of the detail as possible, keep “all the scratches and all the weird things.” They want people to have the opportunity to...