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Alternate reality game launching Fall ‘22 will measure resilience of first-year students

These students were participating in a play-test session of "LUX," an alternate reality historical fiction game designed by researchers in UCSC's Game User Interaction and Intelligence Lab directed by computational media professor and department chair Magy Seif El-Nasr and the Interaction Dynamics Lab.

AR, gamesDave EngOctober 11, 2022Games, students, reality games, learning, researchers, computers, professors, newsComment

How an alternate reality game helped build community during the pandemic

This spring, a team of scholars affiliated with the Weston Game Lab and the College developed and presented A Labyrinth, an alternate reality game that utilized the UChicago campus as the playspace for a series of interactive quests.

alternate reality, AR, communityDave EngAugust 15, 2020alternate reality, AR, communityComment

Epic Games, Maker of Fortnite, Awards UCF Professor Grant to Enhance AR and VR Technology

Epic Games provided UCF information scientist and artist Maria Harrington a $25,000 grant to expand her cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality work, which she began in 2016 with a website virtual field trip guide and resulted in the VR 1.0 version, The Virtual UCF Arboretum.