{"id":6927,"date":"2019-02-07T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:34:22","slug":"virtual-reality-room-in-hunter-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/virtual-reality-room-in-hunter-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality Room In Hunter Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|0|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Reality (VR) Room in the Library<\/p>\n<p>As part of its Scholar Studio initiative, Hunter Library\u2019s has created and now expanded the Virtual Reality (VR) Room offerings.\u00a0 Its new location, HL 184, is located beside the library electronic classroom (HL 186) and was previously the Interlibrary Loan office.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Hunter Library\u2019s VR Room, like that in the Scholar Studio, is to bring patron-centered makerspace technology to faculty, staff and students.\u00a0 The VR Room\u2019s mission is to raise awareness of new and emerging virtual reality technologies in education.\u00a0 This service is targeted towards members of the university community, primarily faculty and students.\u00a0\u00a0 Reservations for each station are required at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wcu.libcal.com\/reserve\/VR\">https:\/\/wcu.libcal.com\/reserve\/VR<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Once the confirmation email is returned acknowledging your agreement on the terms and conditions, the controllers for the station can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.<\/p>\n<p>The VR Room will have 5 stations.\u00a0\u00a0 Come explore the equipment and experience the state of the art virtual reality technology!\u00a0\u00a0 The room currently has two Oculus Rift stations and one PlayStation 4 VR station.\u00a0 We will be adding two HTC Vive stations in the near future.\u00a0 These devices come with a large amount of free software and plans are in the works for ordering more titles.\u00a0 Your input is welcome as we explore this new educational technology for WCU.<\/p>\n<p>The library also has two Oculus Rift headsets available for checkout for those with their own high-end computers.\u00a0\u00a0 Other VR equipment available from the library includes 2 Ricoh Theda 360 cameras, a GoPro Fusion Action camera (coming soon), and several Google Cardboard headsets that are available for a weekly checkout period from the circulation desk.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Reality (VR) Room in the Library As part of its Scholar Studio initiative, Hunter Library\u2019s has created and now expanded the Virtual Reality (VR) Room offerings.\u00a0 Its new location, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11077,"url":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/vrtips\/","url_meta":{"origin":6927,"position":0},"title":"Important tips for putting VR experiences into your teaching","author":"","date":"September 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Active Learning&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Active Learning","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/category\/active-learning\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22015,"url":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/etle-spring-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":6927,"position":1},"title":"ETLE &#8211; 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