V/AR-DHI Reunion at Duke XR Week in February 2020!

The VARDHI group re-united at Duke in February 2020 to discuss Evaluation Standards for Extended Reality, and to share update on their research with the broader community as part of the Digital Humanities Initiative @ FHI’s “XR Week.” In addition to a public symposium, we saw presnetations from facilitators Andrea Giordano and Cosimo Monteleone on the Invisible Padua project, discussed the question of Evaluation Standards for XR, and met to talk about the latest innovations in XR technology with David Zielinski at Duke’s XR Studio.

Other XR Week activities included:

  • Monday, February 17, 2020 1-5pm (Lunch +) ISS Lab/XR Studio  – Technical Approaches to XR (Instructional Team Meeting)
  • Tuesday, February 18, 2020 – small group co-working and project sharing
  • Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 11:30am-1pm PhD Lab (lab meeting)-  Visualizing Cities/Invisible Padova (Andrea and Cosimo)
  • Friday, Feb 21, 2020 9:30am-11:30 Wired Lab Internal VARDHI meeting – Instructional Team and Participants
  • Friday, Feb 21, 2020 1230-4:00pm Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) VARDHI Symposium – Public Project examples and discussion
  • Monday, February 24, 2020 All day ISS Lab Co-working on project notes with teaching team

Some of our planned XR Week follow-up activities at the Franklin Humanities Institute were disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. We have not yet been able to return to in-person activities on campus, but hope to resume our discussions in the coming months.