Tag: virtual reality
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Connecting With Nature Through Virtual Reality
On Wednesday, October 14, the Duderstadt Center hosted Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance ritual. The event was hosted in the Video Studio, where participants could have a meditative experience in virtual reality. Following that, Petra Kuppers, a professor at the University of Michigan and the Director of the
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“Citizen Kane” in Virtual Reality: The Great Hall Recreated
The 1941 film “Citizen Kane” may have been originally filmed in Hollywood, California, but University of Michigan professor Matthew Solomon and Western Michigan professor Vincent Longo (PhD ’22, University of Michigan) decided to bring the movie’s iconic sets right here to the Duderstadt Center — in virtual reality. In their
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Celebrating 30 Years: Where 2D Becomes 3D
From 2008 to 2019, the Duderstadt Center’s 3D-related technologies could be found in a space called the 3D Lab, which was preceded by the Virtual Reality Lab or VRL, located in the DC since 1997. The 3D Lab housed many different ways to make two-dimensional objects in three-dimensions through virtual
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Planting Disabled Futures: A Virtual Reality Ritual
Duderstadt Center Video StudioWednesday, October 14 | 1–5 p.m. Step into a virtual world where plants, movement, and disability culture come together. Planting Disabled Futures invites visitors to explore healing plants through VR and participate in an afternoon of performance, movement, and community. Screenshot of Daniel’s VR Project Design The
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Studio Team in Paris: Reimagining the Magic of Méliès
This August, the Duderstadt Center Studio Team took their work overseas for the prestigious Colloques de Cerisy in France, an interdisciplinary gathering of creators, artists, and researchers from around the world. The team presented VR, digital video, and 35mm film projects created at the Duderstadt Center as part of University
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Technology Supporting Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients
A bright green avatar stands motionless on the TV screen, mirroring the person standing ten feet away. Above the avatar, a digital Block “M” flag hangs attached to a digital brick wall. This is not the newest video game. This is the newest generation of rehabilitation. For the past ten
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Celebrating 30 Years: Looking Back at the Visualization Studio
The Visualization (Viz) Studio has seen technology maneuver through time, with the walls changing as much as the technology changed itself. What now comprises the Viz Studio at one point used to be four different rooms, each with a different purpose. There was one room for ArtsEngine, one room for
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MIDEN VR Project Earns Thesis with Highest Distinction
Visualization Studio Virtual reality (VR) continues to transform how we learn, communicate, and conduct research. With guidance from Visualization Studio staff and instructor Sara Eskandari, University of Michigan senior Zihan Li developed an immersive virtual supermarket using Unreal Engine to investigate how consumers interact with different advertising strategies in a
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AAFF VR Documentary Screening: Is The War Close?
Directed by visiting professor Joseph Sywenkyj and DC staff member Sara Eskandari (Duderstadt Center Visualization Studio), this room-scale virtual reality documentary recreates the experience of being at home in Kyiv during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack. Using gaming technology and spatial audio, the work allows participants to move
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AAFF VR Documentary Screening: Planting Disabled Futures: A Virtual Reality Ritual
Visualization Studio March 25-27, 1pm Michigan Theater Grand Foyer Featuring as one of the immersive VR screening experiences at Ann Arbor Film Festival, this crip installation and community performance, developed by Disability Culture Activist Petra Kuppers and DC staff Daniel Vincenz, invites the audience into a world of healing plants
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DMC Staff Exhibition
Duderstadt Center Gallery February 17 – March 8, 2026 Creativity emanates from the Duderstadt Center. Faculty, students and staff all benefit from the creative expertise found within the design labs, audio, video and visualization studios, fabrication resources and the gallery. Join us as our own staff step out from behind
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From DC to Pandora: Marc Morisseau’s Journey to Avatar
In early February, Marc Morisseau—former Duderstadt Center trainee and now an Academy Award–winning visual effects producer for Hollywood films and AAA games—joined Professor Melissa Gross’s Kinesiology class for a virtual guest lecture. During the talk, Marc reflected on his early passion for animation and motion capture, developed through training with
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Award-Winning M.I.D.E.N Project Featured at Stamps Gallery
Fluid Frequencies—a virtual reality project developed by Stamps student Ava Muntner—has been selected for the 2026 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition running from January 30 to February 21 and received an award. Created at M.I.D.E.N (Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus), the project takes advantage of the space’s immersive, location-tracking technology, which adapts
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Residual Artifacts
MIDEN As part of her contribution to the “Impressions: 2024 Stamps Senior Exhibition“, Stamps School of Art & Design senior Charlotte Lee presented her art piece in the MIDEN with support from Advanced Visualization Specialist Ted Hall. The sound design was done by Ilan Salomon-Jacob. Utilizing point clouds and LiDAR
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EECS 498: XR Showcase
RECENT EVENT: Visualization Studio April 19, 2024 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Professor Austin Yarger’s EECS 498 students will showcase their virtual and augmented reality projects in the Visualization Studio on April 19th. Students will have VR stations set-up for visitors to experience their projects. Visit the Visualization Studio webpage to
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Webinar Recording Now Available: “Extended Reality (XR): Exploring the Boundaries of Research & Dissemination:
Webinar – Original Presentation: February 26, 2024, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. This Webinar is now available at: Innovation Partnerships and the Center for Academic Innovation Site. And on YouTube. In collaboration with Innovation Partnerships and the Center for Academic Innovation, the Duderstadt Center will be part of the Software &
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“Pivot” a Virtual Reality Dance Gallery
RECENT EVENT: Duderstadt Center Gallery January 10-21, 2024 Opening Reception: January 14, at 12:00 p.m. The University of Michigan Department of Dance presents Bachelor of Fine Arts capstone project Pivot. The walk-through exhibit features choreography filmed for virtual reality by graduating senior Rileigh Goldsmith. Rileigh Goldsmith’s senior dance thesis project
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2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Innovative Pedagogy Award
Congratulations to Professor Matthew Solomon and Lecturer Vincent Longo who received the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Innovative Pedagogy Award, “designed to recognize new methods, perspectives, and techniques in the teaching of Cinema, Radio, Television, and Emerging Media Studies.” The award recognizes three of Solomon and Longo’s teaching-related