Giudice, Corey Give VEMI Lab Demo at Maine Science Festival, WABI Reports
WABI (Channel 5) covered the inaugural Maine Science Festival that was held throughout downtown Bangor and at the Cross Insurance Center. Several UMaine facilities and community members offered events as part of the festival. UMaine’s Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory provided hands-on, virtual reality activities, including a driving simulator. “Little kids are pretty excited about how cool some of the virtual reality is. The older kids are stopping and talking to our programmers and asking them how it’s done,” said Richard Corey, the lab’s director of operations. Nicholas Giudice, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Science who directs the lab, said he hopes the lab and festival inspire others. “A lot of these kids that are coming in have never thought about this stuff and are leaving going, ‘Wow, that’s amazing,’” Giudice said.