Source: thedaily.case.edu --- Monday, October 24, 2016
Over the past 18 months, Case Western Reserve has used Microsoft HoloLens devices for anatomy and art history, music and sustainability . Now it’s time to apply them to pure fun. The university’s Interactive Commons (IC), home to academic innovation in visualization, is offering undergraduate, graduate and professional students a free holographic “haunted house” from 4 to 6 p.m. this Thursday and Friday—and on Halloween. Those interested in trying on the HoloLens headsets to see three-dimensional images—along with everything else actually in the room—can sign up online starting today. Registrants should be prepared to indicate which day(s) they can attend: Oct. 27, 28, and/or the 31. Those selected will receive an email with their time slots and dates; each session lasts about 10 minutes. Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic began partnering with Microsoft early in 2015, as the company prepared to launch what it calls the world’s first untethered holographic computer. The university and hospital are partnering on a 485,000-square-foot Health Education Campus now under construction, and saw the HoloLens as an opportunity to provide its students truly cutting-edge educational experiences. This spring the two institutions launched the first third-party HoloLens app on Microsoft’s online store; last month that app won in the immersive virtual reality and augmented reality category in the 2016 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards co ...
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