Virginia Tech researchers awarded Microsoft grant to pioneer mixed reality research

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Hololenses are devices that project a three dimensional image into the users' eyes, optionally along with what the user would normally see. This allows the devices to create what they call a "hybrid reality," in which computer graphics and mixed with reality.

Virginia Tech has received a research grant from Microsoft corporation to look into uses for this technology. The researchers were affiliated with the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. They received $100,000 toward their work. The researchers intend to use this money along with other sources of funds to look into the details of a tornado in Oklahoma for which they have data. They call this project the "meteorological immersion project."

More generally, the scientists are attempting to find applications for multiple users to collaborate on scientific and learning projects in a mixed reality environment.

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