{"id":18328,"date":"2020-03-23T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:04","slug":"u-m-awards-six-xr-projects-under-new-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/u-m-awards-six-xr-projects-under-new-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M awards six XR projects under new initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-700x483.png\" alt=\"Extended Reality (XR) @ Michigan logo\" class=\"wp-image-17176\"\/><figcaption>(Center for Academic Innovation)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/u-m-awards-6-xr-projects-under-new-initiative\/\">U-M has awarded funding to six extended reality projects<\/a> under the its new XR Initiative, announced in the fall.  The three-year funded initiative calls for the Center for Academic Innovation to seed new projects and experiments that integrate XR into residential and online curricula, and to create innovative public\/private partnerships to develop new XR related educational technology.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe university is always asking \u2018What\u2019s next?\u2019 and it\u2019s thrilling to see the creative and multidisciplinary projects in health care, engineering and architecture as part of the XR Initiative,\u201d said <strong>James Hilton<\/strong>, U-M vice provost for academic innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XR encompasses augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality and other variations of computer-generated real and virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions. Financial awards for the first-round projects ranged from $12,000 to $25,000, and each award will be supported through a number of in-kind investments from the XR Initiative and the Center for Academic Innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-M has awarded funding to six extended reality projects under the its new XR Initiative, announced in the fall. The three-year funded initiative calls for the Center for Academic Innovation to seed new projects and experiments that integrate XR into residential and online curricula, and to create innovative public\/private partnerships to develop new XR related educational technology. \u201cThe\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/u-m-awards-six-xr-projects-under-new-initiative\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[479,175,45,128],"class_list":["post-18328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-academic-innovation","tag-award","tag-education","tag-xr"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-400x266.png",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-300x207.png",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907.png",600,414,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/XR-Sticker-Design_v3_Option-4-uai-1032x712-1-e1579015503907-400x266.png",376,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M has awarded funding to six extended reality projects under the its new XR Initiative, announced in the fall. 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