Posts by IC Staff

Dr. Mark Griswold featured on CIFF Perspectives panel

Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) featured a first-ever exhibition for immersive storytelling, featuring interactive media, virtual reality, and more. As technology evolves, so too does the way we tell stories. With a new generation of creators, comes innovative collaboration and the capacity to envision multiple perspectives within a single story. Here you can watch the…

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Microsoft HoloLens – Partners Make it Real

Partners like Lowe’s, Greg Lynn FORM, Case Western Reserve University, NASA, and more have moved from proofs of concept to pilot and are now putting Microsoft HoloLens to use in real business scenarios. Watch.

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IC Develops First Third Party Application for HoloLens

Developers in the IC helped CWRU make history by delivering the first third party application in the Microsoft HoloLens app store. The application is a quick demonstration of how we plan to use HoloLens for anatomy education in the future. The accompanying video has already been viewed by millions of people from all over the globe.…

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Working with HoloLens: Learning to Write Shaders

Over the last six months or so, I’ve taken on the task of learning and implementing shaders for our group. For anyone who doesn’t know, a shader is the code which your GPU runs to take your object and turn it into something you can see on the screen. As you can imagine, a shader…

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CWRU on Stage for Second HoloLens Demo at //BUILD

Dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Pamela B. Davis, was on stage at the 2016 Microsoft //Build conference to update the world on our digital anatomy program. She was joined on stage by IC members Jeff Mlakar and Henry Eastman who did a live demonstration of the application. They also brought…

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Communicating with Pics and Tech

The Interactive Commons (IC) endeavors to tackle some of society’s greatest challenges by combining expertise. In other words, the things that you know in your unique discipline may provide some missing insight into the unique thing someone is doing in a seemingly unrelated area. And, to bridge different perspectives and sides of academia, we need some tools…

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Curing Cancer with Radio Waves and Magnetic Nanoparticles

CWRU researcher lands grant to build stealthy brain tumor treatment combining nanotechnology with traditional chemotherapy drug and resistance-inhibitors. As Stathis Karathanasis says, “It’s the Midwestern mentality and the culture at Case Western Reserve that allows people to just talk. And then serendipity occurs.”   Read More.

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CWRU on Stage at //BUILD to help launch HoloLens

Professor Mark Griswold was invited to present a demo liveon stage to an audience of 5,000+ at the 2015 Microsoft //Build developers’conference.     News  (Wired) “Microsoft Shows HoloLens’ Augmented Reality IsNo Gimmick“: (PC Mag) “Microsoft Wows Build with HoloLens HologramShow“ (Gizmodo) “Put A HoloLens in the Classroom and I’llHappily Go Back to School“ Press…

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