On 25 April, 2023, NSF announced and UCF announced the Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA). We also enabled the first VERA web site.
Author: Gregory Welch
Alumnus Dr. Salam Daher receives teaching award
SREAL alumnus Dr. Salam Daher was chosen as the 2022 Ying Wu College of Computing Excellence In Teaching Faculty Member Award at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Nahal Norouzi awarded Best Demo Audience Choice Award for ICAT-EGVE 2020
On 04 DEC 2020, at the closing ceremony for ICAT-EGVE 2020, Nahal Norouzi was awarded the Best Demo Audience Choice Award. Congratulations Nahal! We are very proud of you.
Successful ICAT-EGVE 2020 (Prof. Gerd Bruder)
Today, 04 DEC 2020, marked the closing of ICAT-EGVE 2020, chaired by Prof. Gerd Bruder. Fabulous job Gerd!
Jonathan Jules heading to Visual Concepts (2k Games)!
Congratulations to Undergraduate Research Assistant Jonathan Jules, who has accepted a position at heading to Visual Concepts (2k Games)! He will be starting in January of 2020.
Nice NASA article on M&S alum Angelica Garcia
Nice story from a few months ago highlighting work by Angelica Garcia (link), M&S Alum, advisee of ours, and friend.
Prof. Welch to serve on WEF Council on VR/AR
Prof. Welch will serve one year on the World Economic Forum, Global Future Councils, Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality. Collaborator Prof. Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford) is a Co-Chair of the Council.
Myungho and Jason chosen for Doctoral Consortium @ IEEE VR 2018
Both Myungho Lee and Jason Hochreiter were chosen for the IEEE VR 2018 Doctoral Consortium. This is an honor and includes travel and conference registration support.
Salam awarded RADM Fred Lewis Post Graduate I/ITSEC Scholarship (2017-2018)
I am so happy to share that Salam has been given an I/ITSEC (Fred Lewis) Scholarship. This is 1 of 3 awards given at the Ph.D. level. She has applied for and received this, a Link Fellowship, and M&S fellowships. Fantastic.