The Kvasir-VR Project is developing educational networked virtual reality technology, bringing it to schools, and working with students to integrate their own VR scenes. Students wearing VR headsets are guided through virtual field trips by live teacher imagery from a 3D camera (Kinect V2). A high school group will also gain VR design experience by creating their own virtual reality scenes, which we will view with Kvasir-VR.

The current project team members include Dr. Christoph Borst (UL Lafayette Professor, Project lead), Nicolette Darjean (DTSMA Engineering Academy Educator, Project lead), Jason Woodworth and Nicholas Lipari (UL Lafayette Graduate Students), Paul Smith (UL Lafayette Undergraduate Research Student), and Adam Prejean (UL Lafayette Computer Graphics Artist).

Summaries of the project and of our related prior work can be seen here:

• Overview of Our Lab’s Networked VR Research
• Kvasir-VR: Teacher-Guided Shared Virtual Worlds (Mozilla Gigabit Community Project)
• Remotely Guided VR Field Trips with Kvasir VR (US Ignite Application Page)
• IEEE VR 2017 Best Research Demo Award
• Networked VR Demo Featured by US Ignite
• Press release: International demo between Lafayette and Australia

Our project team members (back row) with some DTSMA students (front row)

Kvasir-VR overview slide as posted at the Robideaux Report Showcase