Over the past 18 months, 杏吧视频 has used Microsoft HoloLens devices for and art history, .
Now it鈥檚 time to apply them to pure fun.
The university鈥檚 Interactive Commons (IC), home to academic innovation in visualization, is offering undergraduate, graduate and professional students a free holographic "haunted house" from 4 to 6 p.m. this Thursday and Friday鈥攁nd on Halloween.
Those interested in trying on the HoloLens headsets to see three-dimensional images鈥攁long with everything else actually in the room鈥攃an starting today.
Registrants should be prepared to indicate which day(s) they can attend: Oct. 27, 28, and/or the 31. Those selected will receive an email with their time slots and dates; each session lasts about 10 minutes.
杏吧视频 and Cleveland Clinic began partnering with Microsoft early in 2015, as the company prepared to launch what it calls the world鈥檚 first untethered holographic computer.
The university and hospital are partnering on a 485,000-square-foot Health Education Campus now under construction, and saw the HoloLens as an opportunity to provide its students truly
This spring the two institutions launched the first third-party HoloLens app on Microsoft鈥檚 online store; last month that in the immersive virtual reality and augmented reality category in the 2016 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards competition鈥攂esting finalists David Attenborough and Google.
The primary HoloLens-related task of the Interactive Commons鈥 team of computer scientists and artists is to develop a full holographic anatomy curriculum for the medical students who begin classes at the Health Education Campus when it opens in the summer of 2019. But after all of the global attention those efforts already have attracted, the commons鈥 leaders wanted to give those on campus a taste of the new technology.
Besides, explained Executive Director Erin Henninger, the event also gave staff a chance to stretch their skills beyond the basics of arteries, veins and organs.
鈥The 鈥楬oloween鈥 experience provided a creative outlet for the Interactive Commons team to push the boundaries of Microsoft HoloLens and how we tell stories and learn in this new augmented-reality medium,鈥 she said.
Those who receive Holoween confirmation emails should go to the elevators at the northern end of the Thwing Atrium about 15 minutes before their assigned time and date. Interactive Commons鈥 staff will be at a nearby table to welcome and direct guests from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 27, 28 and 31.
While Holoween is a free, donations are encouraged; all funds received will go to the .
