ISU event encourages STEM pursuit
Approximately 50 middle school students from Boone attended an event at Iowa State University on April 12 sponsored by a grant from the American Physical Society (APS) with the purpose […]
Research into augmented reality enables Boeing workers to assemble plane wings faster.
An article in The New Yorker titled “The Breathless Rhetoric (and Prosaic Economics) of Virtual Reality” references the results of a study that Boeing conducted with researchers at Iowa State University. The […]
Zayira Jordan becomes Iowa State’s first web accessibility coordinator
Zayira Jordan has accepted a new position, becoming Iowa State’s first web accessibility coordinator. Zayira has a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University and was a lecture […]
Applications for REU|2016 are now being accepted!
Applications for this summer’s SPIRE-EIT REU program are now being accepted! This is a 10-week NSF sponsored program that provides undergraduates with hands-on research experience. For more details and to […]
Virtual reality puts football recruits in the middle of game day at Jack Trice Stadium
Researchers are using the sophisticated tools of the Virtual Reality Applications Center to create a virtual Jack Trice Stadium for football recruits. It’s a way to show off the stadium’s […]
Military uses augmented reality to prepare airmen for battle.
The Washington Post talks with Lockheed Martin and VRAC director James Oliver on how the military is using augmented reality tools to prepare airmen for battle. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/wp/enterprise/how-the-military-prepares-airmen-for-battle/