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.
On May 28th, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm, prof. Bill Kapralos will give a speech at Room 17A. Title of the speech will be “Embracing the future of immersive technologies for medical education".
The VR@POLITO will participate in the Turin International Book Fair (Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino) with several initiatives.
On February 4, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm, prof. Paolo Montuschi and prof. Fabrizio Lamberti will give a speech at the Academy of Science in Turin in the context of a series of seminars on the topic “Math in the contemporary” (“Matematica nel contemporaneo”). Title of the speech will be “Real computers and virtual geometry: Tools, opportunities and perspectives” (“Computer reali e geometria virtuale: Strumenti, opportunità e prospettive”).
On 25 July 2018, the thesis titled "Techniques and software tools for the production of virtual visits" by Filippo Conti, supervisors Prof. Fabrizio Lamberti and Prof. Marco Mezzalama was discussed in front of the Commission for the MS Degree in Cinema and Media Engineering. The thesis is part of a work that is being developed within the VR@POLITO initiative to offer international students and other visitors the opportunity to explore key areas of Politecnico di Torino using emerging technologies like Virtual Reality and 360° immersive videos.