Oct 27, 2024

An Extraordinary Look at NC State’s Extraordinary Places: AR Transforms Red and White Night

Whether it be the feeling of a roaring crowd at Reynolds Coliseum or the familiar sound of the Memorial Belltower’s chimes, NC State’s hallowed places live on in the hearts of our students and alumni — even when they’re far from home. These spaces mean more than just bricks and grass. They are where our…

Oct 27, 2024

Inside an IEP: Immersive Meetings to Prepare Future Teachers

Assistant Professor Jamie Pearson and a team at DELTA are leveraging virtual reality and PlayPosit to create virtual meetings that will better prepare future teachers to support students with disabilities and positively impact the educational experience. Read the full article.

Oct 27, 2024

Batting 1000: Feed Milling Awarded Third DELTA Grant

Since 2018, Fahrenholz and Herchler have applied to the DELTA Grants program three times. Every time, their application was accepted. In 2020, a year filled with challenges, the new grant was some of the best news they’d had in a while. Read the full article.

Oct 27, 2024

DELTA Explores On-Location Photoscanning

As part of our new DELTA Explores series, we’re sharing how we research, test and explore the latest in immersive technology and its role in teaching and learning — how we Think before we Do. Immersive Media Developer Stephen Waddell shares a few 3D models captured through photoscanning at William B. Umstead State Park. Read the full article.

Oct 27, 2024

DELTA Explores Working with Spatial Audio for Distance Education

Immersive Media Support Specialist Justin Kuhn shares how virtual reality with spatial audio creates real-life virtual experiences. “This exploratory project was also a pilot for future immersive videos because much of the technology that we exercised had only existed in silos; this is the first time we were combining stereoscopy, 3rd-order ambisonics, custom Unity rendering, and experimental…

Oct 27, 2024

Tackling Global Health with Virtual Reality

A DELTA Grant project developed in collaboration with Assistant Professor Andy Stringer and the College of Veterinary Medicine will allow veterinary students to explore global health challenges, diverse farming practices and cultural contexts in virtual reality. “I think that immersive technology such as virtual reality and augmented reality has a big role to play in…

Oct 27, 2024

NC State Organic Chemistry Virtual Reality Labs Shared Globally

When Maria Gallardo-Williams teamed up with NC State DELTA to create a set of organic chemistry virtual reality (VR) labs, she knew from the beginning the potential the project had to make a real impact for students — but no one could predict the current impact felt across the country, and even across the world.…

Oct 27, 2024

DELTA Explores VR in the Classroom

Immersive Media Support Specialist Justin Kuhn shares our thoughts and what we’ve learned about creating real-time virtual reality (VR) experiences so far. Read the full article.

Oct 27, 2024

How We Think Before We Do: DELTA Explores Sound Design for Immersive Ed

Here at NC State, our motto is to Think and Do. And trust us — we do a lot of thinking and a lot of doing. But what does that thinking part look like before we put it into action? At DELTA, we are constantly exploring, researching and testing the latest in immersive technology and…

Oct 27, 2024

DELTA and NC State Libraries Invited to San Diego State University to Share Immersive Learning