Department of Spanish and Portuguese faculty discuss virtual reality, art at Professional TED Talk event

Department of Spanish and Portuguese faculty and graduate students gathered to hear Prof. Claudia Quevedo-Webb and Spanish lecturer Cristina Codina speak on innovative approaches to language instruction in Kresge Hall Wednesday. The event was the third of the Professional TED Talk series put on by the Spanish Language Program Professional Development Committee, a program designed...

VR museum ‘Augmented Curiosities’ encourages visitors to explore African artifacts in immersive ways

On Main Library’s fifth floor, visitors can grab a virtual reality headset and be virtually immersed in material culture from an African collection. The exhibition, called “Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures,” uses augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to generate an innovative user experience with objects from Northwestern’s Herskovits Library of...