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Collaboration in Mixed Reality: Five Scenarios
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Since the start of the Coronavirus crisis, professionals around the world have been forced to shift from working in their offices to working from home. This makes getting in touch with peers and collaborating in teams considerably more challenging than … Read More

Virtual Reality: 5 Ways to Reimagine Working from Home
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Executive summary VR has the potential to create flexible, immersive environments for multimodal, virtual value creation, data exploration, and collaboration. VR simultaneously allows for physical activity and can foster mental wellbeing in the future. Rather than from an economic perspective, … Read More

Introductory Workshop to AR Development
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On March 1st, 2020 the Cambridge University Virtual and Augmented Reality Society facilitated and introductory workshop to mobile AR development.  Within the workshop, the participants learned about the basic theoretical concepts underlying AR. In order to become familiar with AR … Read More

Augmented Reality for Resilient Manufacturing Operations
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The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the global economy and most companies are unprepared. Within hours, industrial managers have to come up with solutions to keep operations going. In doing so, they face unforeseen restrictions. Challenges include quarantined staff, supply bottlenecks, … Read More

Construction Information Technology Lab
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CIT focuses on applications of computer science to improving the life cycle of buildings and civil infrastructure. Our contributions to knowledge are in engineering. Dr. Marianna Kopsida’s research focuses on developing and enhancing the acquisition of indoor as-built information, which were … Read More

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

Collaboration in Mixed Reality: Five Scenarios
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Since the start of the Coronavirus crisis, professionals around the world have been forced to shift from working in their offices to working from home. This makes getting in touch with peers and collaborating in teams considerably more challenging than … Read More

Virtual Reality: 5 Ways to Reimagine Working from Home
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Executive summary VR has the potential to create flexible, immersive environments for multimodal, virtual value creation, data exploration, and collaboration. VR simultaneously allows for physical activity and can foster mental wellbeing in the future. Rather than from an economic perspective, … Read More

Introductory Workshop to AR Development
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On March 1st, 2020 the Cambridge University Virtual and Augmented Reality Society facilitated and introductory workshop to mobile AR development.  Within the workshop, the participants learned about the basic theoretical concepts underlying AR. In order to become familiar with AR … Read More

Augmented Reality for Resilient Manufacturing Operations
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The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the global economy and most companies are unprepared. Within hours, industrial managers have to come up with solutions to keep operations going. In doing so, they face unforeseen restrictions. Challenges include quarantined staff, supply bottlenecks, … Read More

Construction Information Technology Lab
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CIT focuses on applications of computer science to improving the life cycle of buildings and civil infrastructure. Our contributions to knowledge are in engineering. Dr. Marianna Kopsida’s research focuses on developing and enhancing the acquisition of indoor as-built information, which were … Read More

HaptX Haptic Gloves
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HaptX Gloves The HaptX Gloves Development Kit is an industrial-grade tool, specifically designed for enterprise VR applications including training, simulation, design, and visualization. Haptic gloves, in layman’s terms, is a glove that simulates a sense of touch for virtual reality … Read More

Supply Chain VR
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VR marks the next stage of digital interfaces: Whereas predominant electronic devices such as smartphones and computers display information on a 2D screen, VR can display information to a 3D depth. This adds another axis for envisioning data.   Alongside … Read More

Virtual IfM
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Our second event is now on 14th of June at the Institute of Manufacturing. The main aim of this society is to build a community around VR and AR technologies in Cambridge. We have identified interesting initiatives from within the … Read More

About Us
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Welcome to the Cambridge University Virtual and Augmented Reality Society. We are the Cambridge University Virtual and Augmented Reality Society, newly founded in 2017. Following the growing feasibility of virtual/augmented reality, our society aims to explore the potential of a … Read More