VAR Studios is thrilled to announce the launch of a new studio space that expands our production capabilities. The XRcast podcasting studio is designed to capture mixed reality content, with limitless use cases for creating more engaging course materials, producing VR RunThroughs of various virtual reality programs, entertainment. Faculty can use these reviews to choose
Thank you to Animation Career Review for including Penn State Behrend among the Top 50 AR/VR colleges in the US. Click here to see the rankings for yourself. The VAR Lab is honored to be a part of the Behrend campus and benefit from the presence of several great technology-related programs. The organization is proud
Over the course of several months, students and faculty collaborated to capture scans of about a dozen historical objects from two distinct eras (1890s and 1950s) gathered from the archives of the Hagen History Center and community partners. To ensure the best quality final product, scans were often repeated multiple times using our Artec Structured
VAR Studios, Behrend’s XR Makerspace, is proud to announce the recent acquisition of a pair of structured light scanners. These scanners increase our capabilities to efficiently create 3D assets from a variety of real-world objects. The technology uses flashing light and several camera sensors set at varying depths to capture the shape and texture of
The VAR Lab is pleased to announce that it has moved to a new space that is better suited to the needs of the organization. The original location of the VAR Lab was Business Suite 218 of the Merwin Building in Knowledge Park. However, the space was relatively small for all the ideas and initiatives
During the Spring of 2022, the VAR Lab was given the opportunity to present its work at Teaching and Learning with Technology's (TLT's) annual Symposium. The presentation was aimed at introducing the VAR Lab and its work to integrate immersive technologies at Behrend. The presentation was delivered by the Director of the VAR Lab, Dr.
The VAR Lab team, comprised of Marcus Jacobs and Dr. Chris Shelton, is thrilled to have showcased their Virtual Hike of the Wintergreen Gorge project in collaboration with Behrend's Alumni Relations Director and Sustainability Coordinator, as a part of Penn State's annual We Are alumni event. This event is traditionally held at the University Park
I am an undergraduate researcher working for VAR Lab under a grant that is allowing me to be paid to do public relations research that will later be used to develop a public relations campaign. This research is being conducted for a majority of the summer of 2020 under the Penn State Behrend 2020 Undergraduate
