On November 24 2019, from 9.45am to 10.15am, people from the VR@POLITO laboratory and Fondazione LINKS, will give a speech on "Realtà virtuale come strumento per l'addestramento degli operatori preposti alla gestione delle emergenze" in the context of the first edition of “Festival Scienza (Oltre la luna)” in Verona
On November 8, starting from 9.00 am the VR@POLITO hub at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN) will be showcasing some of its research activities concerning innovative applications of virtual and augmented reality in key areas encompassing industry, health and medicine, autonomous systems, etc.
On October 10, 2019, prof. Fabrizio Lamberti and prof. Andrea Bottino, from the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino and the VR@POLITO laboratory and Prof. Pier Luigi Ingrassia from Università del Piemonte Orientale - SIMNOVA will give a speech on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Emergency Management in the context of the "UOMO VIRTUALE. Corpo, Mente, Cyborg" exhibition hosted at Mastio della Cittadella, Torino.
On October 1 and 2, 2019, the VR@POLITO of Politecnico di Torino and Fondazione LINKS, with the support of the the Italian Air Force, will participate to the TOXIC TRIP 2019, an event promoted by NATO to potentiate the interoperability of national air forces in a transnational perspective. At the event, a virtual reality-based tool supporting the training of personnel involved in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defense procedures will be showcased.
The VR@POLITO will be present at the Politecnico di Torino stand of the 2019 Maker Faire in Rome (October 18-20), showcasing demonstrators and presentations on the activities in the fields of industrial and service robotics.
The VR@POLITO will be involved in the 2019/2020 project of the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) named Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality (AVMR) by SEI Pioneer. Prof. Fabrizio Lamberti will act as main supervisor. SEI Pioneer is a one-year program in partnership with ASP that aims to create the next generation of deep tech entrepreneurs and innovators in Italy. According to the proposal, Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality is mostly associated with entertainment industry. After all, a VR headset seems on the surface to be essentially a very high-tech video game. The truth is, that this technology goes far beyond that: not everyone plays video games, but everyone loves to learn and interact in a different way. Educational Technology, in particular, is going through several changes in the last years, including also the mass-marketization of educative and recreational games; Schools and universities are changing their traditional teaching methods and it will completely revolutionize the way teachers teach and students learn together, while also industries and corporates are adapting their learning methods.
