Unfolding Potential: BYU and Origami
Who would have ever thought that origami could save lives or help technology to reach outer space, but that's exactly what BYU students studying engineering are doing.
BYU Students Explore a New Reality
March 2019
Equipped with a headset and a controller, participants in BYU’s Mixed Reality Lab try to save the lab from a virtual invasion. Their reality is augmented with 3D technology, meaning that digital 3D objects are inserted into their view of the real world. In virtual reality, the environment is completely digital. The lab provides students with the opportunity to work with both.
Located in the Crabtree Building, the Mixed Reality Lab is used to design and prototype mixed-reality experiences. In the lab, students work with the top augmented and virtual reality technology from around the world.
“As someone who wants to be a user experience designer, working in this lab has been an exciting challenge,” said Miah Dawes, one of the first students to take a class in the lab. “I love being part of discovering an emerging technology with such great potential to better lives.”
Read more at news.byu.edu.
Related Articles
Engineering a Better World: New Building on the Rise
With students, faculty, and supporters gathered, President Kevin J Worthen marked the start of construction for a new engineering building at Brigham Young University. He spoke of how campus’s newest structure would help create a better future for students, families, and communities
A Wonderful Inspiring Learning Adventure
Mikayah Siufanua slept on a floating island of reeds at Lake Titicaca and taught Peruvian women to make soap for a living. Thanks to donors, this is just the beginning of her inspiring learning adventure.