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Rutgers VR Showcase - Tuesday February 27th

Jan 18, 2015
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Hello! This event will be taking place this Tuesday, February 27th. It's a collaborative event between CDW-G and several Rutgers departments which I've been putting together for almost a year. It is free and open to the public, so I thought I'd share.

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FREE ADMISSION

Join CDW-G, our event sponsor, for an in-depth look at the latest virtual reality technology. This event is open to the public and free of charge. There will be VR demos that you can try yourself, Makerspace 3D printing and human scanning demos, giveaways, free food, presentations by key companies in the VR industry, and a chance to meet representatives from Microsoft, CDW, Cisco, Intel, HP, and HTC. The event runs from 10AM until 4PM and you are encouraged to attend for as little or as much as your schedule allows.

10 AM: Demo Hall Opens
10:30AM: Opening remarks from Christopher J. Molloy, Ph.D., R.Ph., Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development
11:00AM: Faculty Speaker: Dr. Grigorie Burdea: The Research and Future of Virtual Reality in Medical Rehabilitation
11:30AM: Intel: Dr. Brent Insko: “Developing for VR: The Challenges and Future of Building VR Applications”
12PM: Lunch from Rutgers Geek Week, with a Presentation by Rutgers Office of Advanced Research Computing
12:30PM: Makerspace/GRID/DoCS: VR Resources at Rutgers and How Students can Get Involved
1PM: HTC: Tanner Thayer: VR/AR in Industry - Industries that have been transformed
1:30 PM: HP: Gus Schmedlen: The Status of VR/AR in Higher Education
2PM: Faculty Speaker: Dr. Pat Shafto of Rutgers-Newark: Modified reality: Harnessing science to change perception
2:30 PM: Faculty Speaker: Dr. Paul Weber, Associate Dean-Continuing Medical Education: VR Health Applications--Current and Future
3PM: CDW closing remarks from Marisa Dourlain, Product Manager for Emerging Technology and Visual Solutions
4PM: Demo Hall Closes

Our Speakers:
Industry:
-Intel - Brent E. Insko, PhD: Architect, Intel's VR Center of Excellence
-HP – Gus Schmedlen: Vice President of Worldwide Education at HP
-HTC - Tanner Thayer, VR Evangelist, Developer, and Enthusiast

Rutgers:
-Dr. Patrick Shafto - Henry Rutgers Term Chair in Data Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers - Newark
-Dr. Greg Burdea - Pioneering Expert in using Virtual Reality for Medical Rehabilitation, Professor at ECE, Founder and President of Bright Cloud International
-Rick Anderson - Director of Virtual Worlds for Rutgers University, and President of Fair Use Building and Research Labs.
-Christopher J. Molloy, Ph.D., R.Ph. - Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development at Rutgers New Brunswick
- Paul F. Weber, MD, RPh, MBA - Associate Dean-Continuing Medical Education at the Center for Continuing and Outreach Education (CCOE) of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson (RWJMS) and New Jersey Medical Schools.

Demos to try:
HP Sprout
HP Mixed Reality Headset
HTC Vive VR Headset
Microsoft Surface Book
Microsoft Surface Hub
Microsoft Surface Studio
Microsoft Hololens
Acer Mixed Reality Headset
3D Printers
3D Face Scanning
Pixel Wall
BrightBrainer Virtual Rehabilitation System
 
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Sir,best of luck with the event. This is one of those things that we should be doing a lot to bring New Jerseyans to campus so they are more familiar with their state university.Next year,will you be able to hold it in the new Engineering building?
 
Sir,best of luck with the event. This is one of those things that we should be doing a lot to bring New Jerseyans to campus so they are more familiar with their state university.Next year,will you be able to hold it in the new Engineering building?

Thanks! Not sure about next year yet. This is an internship for me, so we'll see what the next CDW campus intern does. Of course, it also depends on this being successful.
 
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