VEMI Lab Featured on WVII
WVII (Channel 7) covered the second annual open house of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and houses Maine’s only research facility that combines a fully immersive virtual reality installation with augmented reality technologies in an integrated research and development environment. Nicholas Giudice, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Science, and Richard Corey, the lab’s director of operations, spoke about some of the lab’s technology, as well as the latest research projects. “Our argument is, if you can provide the same information through accessible means, nonvisual means, you can learn it in the same exact way and activate the same parts of the brain,” Giudice said.