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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. University of the Aegean, Greece. image courtesy VR First. Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

Mueller developed the first software package offering “procedural city modeling,” that is, software that automatically populated a digital model of the terrain and streets of a city with buildings similar in appearance to those in the real city. We succeeded in recruiting him to apply his software to ancient Rome.