Middle Passage VR Experience (MPE)
This virtual reality immersion project was developed by an interdisciplinary team: Dr. Yovanna Pineda (Associate Professor, History), Dr. Fon Gordon (Coordinator of Africana Studies and Associate Professor in History), Dr. Emily Johnson (Assistant Professor, Games and Interactive Media), and Dr. Amy Giroux (Associate Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research).
For more information, visit the project's current site at yovannapineda.com/virtual-reality.
PEAR — Portable Education with Augmented Reality
PEAR is an early proof-of-concept built with students from UCF's Computer Science Capstone class. Designed to test what augmented reality can do for engaging and educating youth (roughly late elementary through early high school age), PEAR superimposes planets that players "gather" by tapping their phone screen. Gathering a planet unlocks a short video and a multiple-choice quiz about it; enough correct answers reveal the planet in full color and let the player place it in its correct spot in the solar system, superimposed on their real surroundings.
Computer Science Capstone Team
- Kenia Castro
- Richard DiBacco
- Matthew Frazier
- Katelyn Jones
Presentations
College of Engineering and Computer Science's Fall 2018 Senior Design Showcase.