WABI covers VEMI 10th anniversary celebration
WABI (Channel 5) covered the 10th anniversary celebration of the University of Maine’s Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory (VEMI Lab) at Buchanan Alumni House on Sept. 21. The lab hosted the VEMI 10 Conference to highlight successes of VEMI alumni, the report states. The conference involved presentations, discussions and a barbecue lunch. VEMI is a place for a diverse group of students and faculty to use virtual reality technologies to learn about scientific research, according to WABI. “One of the biggest things we are celebrating here is the culture we have at the lab,” said RJ Perry, the lab’s technical coordinator. “We have a very nonhierarchical structure here. We have undergrads working with grad students, and information is taught and passed down by whoever is here and has the information.”