INTEC inaugurates modern academic Extended Reality Laboratory

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The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) inaugurated an Extended Reality Laboratory, the first in the country. Extended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term that covers Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality. The lab opens to train students and teachers on the use of these new technologies to deal with climate change and comprehensive disaster risk management.

Mixed Reality (MR) is a view of the real world—physical world—with an overlay of digital elements where physical and digital elements can interact. Virtual Reality (VR): a fully-immersive digital environment. Extended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term that covers all these different technologies, including AR, MR, and VR.

For the installation, INTEC has had support from the Didactic Research Group (GID) of the University of Seville, Spain, whose specialists, Julio Cabero and Óscar Gallego...

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