BLACKSBURG, Va., March 25 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
When Aurora Ortega first entered University Libraries' Virtual Environments Studio (VES), she wasn't a seasoned virtual reality developer - she was just a student with an idea and the willingness to learn a new medium from scratch.
"My role was to show what you could achieve with the VES given an idea and the motivation to bring that idea to life," the creative technologies student said.
Her plan: create a space-themed virtual reality (VR) experience that places users inside a satellite, where they can interact with floating panels that explore the isolation of spaceflight.
Learning a new medium
Before joining the Virtual...