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Virtual Practice, in Practice

August 11, 2019 by jaraines

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -Aristotle If you were to require emergency knee surgery, would you prefer a surgeon with 2 years experience of doing nothing but this surgery, or a student intern that has only heard about the procedure during lecture? While […]

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The Indiana Academy’s Summer Adventure Visit, 2019

June 26, 2019 by jaraines

This year, the Indiana Academy for Science and Mathematics offered a Virtual Reality Summer Adventure Camp. Led by the Indiana Academy’s Susie Cunningham, students toured our lab space. They heard a bit about VR in simulations vs gaming applications from me. But more importantly, they all explored one of our ‘drug house’ simulations to experience […]

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Withered thinking with lateral technology ;)

April 19, 2019 by jaraines

Recently, Larry Wilmore’s Podcast: Black on the Air featured an interview with investigative reporter David Epstein (whose upcoming book, Range, I personally look forward to checking out when it’s released at the end of May). During the podcast, the conversation took a turn towards innovation, and Bill Gore was mentioned. More specifically, his perspective that ‘real […]

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The Indiana Academy in VR

April 1, 2019 by jaraines

The Indiana Academy for Arts and Sciences stopped by to learn more about our work in VR. More specifically, Susie Cunningham’s computer science class stopped by for a tour. Ms. Cunningham has designed an entire class that introduces students to VR and the Unity SDK. For that reason, they joined us in the Social Science […]

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The future is now…

February 19, 2019 by jaraines

Or at least the future of this blogspace is. I plan on using this space for short bursts of bemusement, sharing research, updates, and information on our virtual simulation program at the Social Science Research Center. To kick things off, I figured I would share a quick resource that I think anyone poking around here […]

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