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Virtual reality

A person in a blue sweater wears a War Up Close VR headset

Film+Media

An immersive view of war in Ukraine

Published March 8, 2024

War Up Close exhibit incorporates 360-degree panoramic images, drone footage, and 3D modeling to capture the devastation of the conflict

Neuralangelo rendering of Michelangelo's sculpture, "David"

Artificial intelligence

Unleashing the digital Michelangelo

Published July 12, 2023

Johns Hopkins and NVIDIA researchers teamed up to pioneer Neuralangelo, a revolutionary 3D reconstruction algorithm with applications in virtual reality, autonomous systems, and more

Film

Emma Needell goes home again

Published Fall 2022

Screenwriter Emma Needell, A&S '12, returned to her family's Colorado ranch to film Life Rendered, her new film about a cowboy who uses virtual reality to explore his secret inner self / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Screenshot from the video game, That Dragon, Cancer

Film and media

Video games and grieving

Published May 19, 2021

Video game creator Ryan Green and JHU immersive storytelling expert Gabo Arora discuss ways video games and interactive technologies can be used to create spaces for emotional transformations

Faculty and staff test out the new VR sim equipment at the School of Nursing's Sim Center Kristen Brown

Technology and health

School of Nursing introduces a new, cost-effective form of training: Virtual reality

Published March 12, 2021

The VR software places a student in an ER setting with a nursing assistant who introduces a virtual patient facing a particular dilemma

Illustration of a pixelated person's face

Technology

Written on your face

Published Spring 2019

Developed at the Applied Physics Lab, the Mixed-Reality Social Prosthesis is based on the skills of so-called human lie detectors / Johns Hopkins Magazine