In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we continue our conversation with Dr. Courtney Cogburn from Columbia University and discuss her groundbreaking work in VR with 1000 Cut Journey and how it is as important as ever in the current Black Lives Matters movement. We cover a range of topics that include how her work has evolved to what her group has been doing with corporations to use VR to have a real conversation and make a change.

In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we explore how XR can be used in humanities to advance UM’s liberal arts mission. Professor Blair shares how she designed a course to frame the novel as a project aiming for the creation of immersion and used VR as the object of comparison.. She wanted to bring together a diverse group of students from across campus to examine this new media and develop a critical perspective of experiences created in XR.

In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we explore diversity, race, ethnicity, and gender in terms of embodiment in VR. Lisa Nakamura and Chris Quintana talk about their XR experiences in the humanities and how you create an XR classroom to study affordances in society and culture.

In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we explore nuclear engineering and how we will recreate the Ford Nuclear Reactor in Virtual Reality

In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we learn about nursing simulations and the roots of XR from Second Life. We talk with Michelle Aebersold, a clinical Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan to learn more about her journey into XR. Michelle has been building interactive multi-user simulations at the School of Nursing from Second Life through to VR today.

In this episode we talk with Talal Alothman, an XR Developer at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering. We hear about Talal's work with faculty and his research and experience creating better interactions and interfaces for hand gestures.

In this podcast we talk with Professor Michael Nebeling, our XR Innovator in Residence. We explore his research at the University of Michigan and the state of XR across the University.