Posts by IC Staff

Faculty Director Mark Griswold traveled to Dubai for the Annual meeting of the Global Future Councils which is a part of the World Economic Forum Network of Global Future Councils. This meeting brings together over 600 members from academia, business, government and civil society to promote innovation dealing with regional, geopolitical and global issues.

In October of 2019, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History opened its door for a one night only experience of 3D Narwhal whales swimming around guests in an immersive experience using the Microsoft HoloLens. The IC team, along with CWRU Alum, Martin Nweeia, created this educational application to teach guests about Narwhals environment, their tusks…

Cleveland Museum of Art hosted CMA MIX in October 2019 to kick off their Michelangelo: Mind of the Master exhibition. This gallery took guests through a journey of multiple figures and close studies of human anatomy. The IC created an immersive and interactive HoloLens experience for guests as they attended the mixer.

Actor, children’s literacy and AIDS research advocate, Levar Burton was named Inamori Ethics prize winner. Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence annually presents the Inamori Ethics Prize to a recipient who demonstrates exemplary ethical leadership; the prize honors ethical leaders whose actions and influence greatly improve the human condition.  Burton came to CWRU campus…

Mark Griswold, Interactive Commons Faculty Director and Erin Henninger, Interactive Commons Executive Director, had the chance to meet with the Army’s Medical Operations team to demonstrate CWRU’s use of the Microsoft HoloLens and how they could utilize HoloAnatomy. The Interactive Commons has also created an  EMT training simulation demo, designed for the U.S. Department of…

Gary Galbraith, MFA, Faculty Director of the Department of Dance at CWRU was awarded the 2019 Faculty Distinguished Research Award. Galbraith choreographed a first of its kind piece Imagined Odyssey which premiered in Fall of 2017. This piece had dancers interacting with holograms as audience members wore Microsoft HoloLens headsets to view the performance. He…

IC Faculty Director Professor Mark Griswold was interviewed on NPR to discuss the limitless possibilities of Open Access, which brings the Cleveland Museum of Art’s extensive collection into digital public access, in part through mixed reality. Listen here.

The EDUCAUSE 2018 Horizon Report (formally the New Media Consortium Horizon Report) strives to look at practices likely to enter mainstream use within the next 5 years, and cites examples. CWRU is called out twice – The ThinkBox in Maker Spaces (Pg. 40) and the Interactive Commons and the use of HoloLens in the dance performance…