Join the students and faculty researchers from the Yale Blended Reality project to see examples of building project teams from successful XR projects.

Agenda:

• News/Notes: Justin Berry, faculty, School of Art, CCAM, Blended Reality Principle Investigator

• Industry Speakers: Kimberly Hieftje-Yale Center for Health & Learning Games; Bernard Francois-PreviewLabs

• Featured Project – Wheelchair VR: Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu, Mary Ben Apatoff, Justin Berry

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-reality-yale-yale-blended-reality-p… to receive the Zoom meeting information.

The meeting is open to anyone at Yale interested in learning more about Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality project development.

Speakers:

Kimberly Hieftje, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine and the Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, which focuses on the development and evaluation of videogame interventions for health prevention and promotion, behavior change, and education in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Hieftje received a gift from Facebook Oculus VR to develop smokeSCREEN VR, a VR videogame intervention focused on JUUL/e-cigarette prevention in teens developed by the play4REAL Lab in partnership with PreviewLabs, Inc. Created for the Oculus Go, the game uses voice recognition software to allow players to practice refusing peers in real time. Learn more at https://Play4rlab.org - https://play2PREVENT.org - http://www.games.yale.edu

Bernard Francois, Game prototyping specialist & founder of PreviewLabs - the only company in the world entirely dedicated to rapid prototyping for projects using game dev technology.

Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu, Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Mary Ben Apatoff, Yale College (‘24), Environmental Engineering