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Fabrication Underground! – a photo tour of the DC’s new 3D printing and fabrication space

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Image of the new BigRep Studio 3D printer installed in the DC's Fabrication Underground - capable of producing parts 1000 x 500 x 500 mm
Fabrication Underground is an all new space designed and constructed to provide the U-M community with access to the latest 3D printing technologies, software, and other fabrication resources to transform ideas into physical reality. In addition to several new, advanced Continue Reading ▶ “Fabrication Underground! – a photo tour of the DC’s new 3D printing and fabrication space”

Photo Essay: The DC gives Detroit high school students a glimpse of what their future could hold

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High school students from The School at Marygrove tour the multi-media Video Studio in the Duderstadt Center
“I can see myself being here.” “I didn’t know you could do this in college.” These were some of the comments made by 21 high school students after their tour of the Duderstadt Center and the advanced digital media technologies Continue Reading ▶ “Photo Essay: The DC gives Detroit high school students a glimpse of what their future could hold”

“Sing My Song” – School of Music, Theatre & Dance project brings the vision of renowned operatic baritone, Thomas Hampson, and Detroit high school students together in song

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Composite Image showing the Marygrove high class, Thomas Hampson and a student recording in the Digital Media Commons Audio Studio
“In song, you have one of the most amazing diaries of any generation’s culture at a given time.” That statement, by Thomas Hampson, one of the world’s most renowned operatic baritones, is central to his vision of education and artistic Continue Reading ▶ ““Sing My Song” – School of Music, Theatre & Dance project brings the vision of renowned operatic baritone, Thomas Hampson, and Detroit high school students together in song”

Technology collaborations that touch every aspect of the U-M experience.

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U-M Rehabilitation patient VR experience in the Visualization Studio MIDEN
A partnership between the Digital Media Commons’ Visualization Studio and Michigan Health enables rehabilitation patients to create and explore new virtual worlds. Donn Hilker, Clinical Director for the University of Michigan Health Rehabilitation Engineering Program, leads a team who use Continue Reading ▶ “Technology collaborations that touch every aspect of the U-M experience.”

More than 1,500 register for XR Initiative’s virtual “XR@Michigan Summit”

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Image taken of Microsoft presentation at Inaugural XR Summit @ Michigan in 2021
A virtual audience from all over the globe came together to hear from industry leaders and innovators talk about how extended reality technology is transforming their work at the first XR@Michigan Summit, organized by University of Michigan’s Extended Reality (XR) Continue Reading ▶ “More than 1,500 register for XR Initiative’s virtual “XR@Michigan Summit””