Maya Georgieva, Director, XReality Center interviewed by Kaitlyn Tiffany for It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram in The Atlantic on the use of Augmented Reality. The article examines: Life is just four walls for many of us right now, but bizarre augmented-reality filters give us the illusion that it’s not. Read excerpts of […]
In May, we continued the XReality Center series of online meetups on zoom and experimented with social VR platforms. With students graduating this month we decided to bring in experts who are actively working in the XR industry. In a conversation led by the XReality Centers Director Maya Georgieva we engaged with students from all […]
In collaboration with The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Ph.D. Psychology students Alison Martingano and Evan Henritze from The New School for Social Research conducted research at the X-Reality Center to determine if VR can increase empathy and charitable donations towards child refugees. The Ph.D. Students worked with Maya Georgieva, Director, XReality Center to design a set of stimuli using 360 Videos […]
This April the XReality Center launched its first series of virtual XR Meetups connecting VR and AR enthusiasts from all corners of The New School. Students and faculty from Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School College of Performing Arts, and The School of Public Engagement came together each Friday […]