Novels in VR – Experiencing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
BEHIND THE SCENES: RE-CREATING CITIZEN KANE IN VR

Students in Matthew Solomon’s classes are used to critically analyzing film. Now they get the chance to be the director for arguably one of the most influential films ever produced: Citizen Kane.

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Novels in VR – Experiencing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Novels in VR – Experiencing Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Wanting to create an immersive experience for her English students, Professor Sara Blair approached the Duderstadt Center about the possibility of turning a novel into a VR experience: Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Using Mobile VR to Assess Claustrophobia During an MRI
Using Mobile VR to Assess Claustrophobia During an MRI

Having realized a problem with patients undergoing MRI scans experiencing claustrophobia, Dr. Richard Brown wanted to use VR simulations to introduce potential patients to what being inside an MRI machine might feel like.

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Students Learn 3D Modeling for Virtual Reality
ROBOTS WHO GOOF: CAN WE TRUST THEM?

When robots make mistakes—and they do from time to time—reestablishing trust with human co-workers depends on how the machines own up to the errors and how human-like they appear, according to University of Michigan research.

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Student Uses Photogrammetry to Miniaturize Herself
Student Uses Photogrammetry to Miniaturize Herself

Stamps student Annie Turpin came to the Duderstadt Center with an idea for her Sophomore studio project: She wanted to create a hologram of herself using photogrammetry.

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Architectural Lighting Scenarios Envisioned in the MIDEN

Architectural Lighting Scenarios Envisioned in the MIDEN ARCH 535 & Arch 545, Winter 2022 Mojtaba Navvab, Ted Hall Prof. Mojtaba Navvab teaches environmental technology in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, with particular interests in lighting and acoustics.  He is a regular user of the Duderstadt Center’s MIDEN (Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus)…

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Learning to Develop for Mixed Reality – The ENTR 390 “VR Lab”

Learning to Develop for Virtual Reality – The ENTR 390 “VR Lab” XR Prototyping For the past several years, students enrolled in the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Intro to Entrepreneurial Design – Virtual Reality course have been introduced to programming and content creation pipelines for XR development using a variety of Visualization Studio resources. Their goal?…

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Revolutionizing 3D Rotational Angiograms with Microsoft Hololens

Revolutionizing 3D Rotational Angiograms with Microsoft Hololens A NEW WAY TO VISUALIZE THE HEART Stephanie O’Malley Just prior to release of the Microsoft Hololens 2, the Visualization Studio was approached by Dr. Arash Salavitabar in the U-M CS Mott Children’s Hospital with an innovative idea: to use XR to improve evaluation of patient scans stemming…

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Novels in VR – Experiencing Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Novels in VR – Experiencing Uncle Tom’s Cabin A Unique Perspective Stephanie O’Malley https://youtu.be/kuH32UcnIJo This past semester, English Professor Sara Blair taught a course at the University titled, “The Novel and Virtual Realities.”  – The purpose of this course was to expose students to different methods of analyzing novels and ways of understanding them from different…

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Using the MIDEN for Hospital Room Visualization
Using the MIDEN for Hospital Room Visualization

Using the MIDEN for Hospital Room Visualization How can doctors and nurses walk around a hospital room that hasn’t been built yet? It may seem like an impossible riddle, but the Duderstadt Center is making it possible! Working with the University Of Michigan Hospital and a team of architects, healthcare professionals are able to preview […]

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