Harvard ARVR Symposium Day1: Harvard XR Research Showcase

Deep Dive: What is the Metaverse? Can I order a pizza there? Will it taste good? What AR/VR activity is happening at Harvard?

Seven Harvard researchers will give short flashtalks on their XR research. Guaranteed to knock your virtual socks off. Community networking thereafter.

• - Visualization Research laboratory: a decade of XR support for teaching and research in the sciences and humanities at Harvard • - AR Educational Technology for Makerspaces •  - Immersive authentic simulations for K-12 science education to enhance motivation and learning • - "Sports Meets XR" - the wide-open possibilities for sports analyticsRus GantIulian RaduShari MetcalfTica Lin

•  - architecting future XR systems • - pyramids, mummies, and Hieroglyphs: Some tools of the future for the study of the pastVijay ReddiPeter Der Manuelian

• - in between the States of Immersion and De-immersionYoung Joo Lee

Portals to the Metaverse provided. Non-virtual food, pizza and drinks also provided for comparison.

Many people contributed to pulling this Symposium together. Noteworthy and herculean effort selecting ideas, speakers, and formats by (the last two leaders of the , which also managed live journeys into the Metaverse on Day1).Leon Pietschmann, Alice Cai, AnhPhu NguyenhAR/VRd Developers Club

3 hours: 4:00-7:00pm