Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning - IMTEL @NTNUnorway is co-organizing a training workshop on Virtual Reality for career counselors and vocational trainers on 2-4 July 2024 in Cologne!

IMTEL @NTNUnorway is proud to start a new project "UK Seafood Fund – Skills and Training Round 1" - #SeafoodVR, coordinated by UHI Shetland and funded by the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs Defra UK! Our first meeting on Shetland Islands on 17-18 June 2024!

Congratulations to the IMTEL team successfully co-organizing a 3-days-long training workshop in Germany, as part of the vr4vet project!

The improvements implemented in v1.3 of our Blue Sector app are based on a contribution of two IMTEL / @NTNUnorway students F. Fosli and T. Sigmundstad.

Our VR4VET Blue sector app v1.4 is now available on Meta App Lab, featuring 🔸A fish laboratory scenario with new exciting tasks! 🔸Characters now look at the player when they talk. 🔸Most visible grabbable objects have more natural grab poses. meta.com/en-gb/experien…

Welcome to the mini-conference on Extended Realities technology, ethics, and education at NTNU campus Dragvoll on 16 October 2024 at 12:00-16:30! The event is organized by the NTNU - SINTEF Gemini Center for Extended Realities and hosted by IMTEL. ntnu.no/kalender/detal…

Welcome to the 3-day workshop on applying Virtual Reality in career guidance and vocational training, organized by our vr4vet project!

On November 10-11, 2024, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland presented IMTEL projects, talked about #XR, ethics and inclusion, and demoed vr4vet #bluesector app at Meta Educators Community Summit Meta for Education in London! #xr4human

✨Virtual Reality for Career Counselors and Vocational Trainers, training workshop for career counselors and vocational trainers! 🗓️26-28.11.2024 ❄️Trondheim, Norway 🏡hosted by IMTEL, @NAVnorge Trøndelag, and Trøndelag fylkeskommune! Program & registration👇 vr4vet.eu/virtual-realit…

We have just released an open-source unitypackage that implements an AI-powered character for Virtual Reality apps, supported by our vr4vet project! Developers: A. Nergaard, F. Skogheim Larsson, I. Ringheim, J. Gabrielsen Grønstad, N. JN, and R. Seeland github.com/vr4vet/vr4vet/…

It was a pleasure to see engaged participants, hear difficult questions, and share our knowledge and experience in developing and integrating #VR into career guidance and vocational training!

At the very end of our projects vr4vet and SeafoodVR, we are still actively developing! We are grateful to UHI Shetland team for the expert evaluation that allowed us to make the scenarios and dialogs in the Blue Sector app more accurate and realistic!

VR4VET Blue sector v1.8 is on Meta App Lab! Highlights: 🔸New accessibility features, supported by XR4Human. 🔸Improved the virtual tablet and task progression in 3 scenarios 🔸Improved NPC behavior, including a more realistic pointing animation meta.com/en-gb/experien…

New publication by IMTEL! Peer Learning of Neuroanatomy with Augmented Reality: the Nevrolens application in the proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW) ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10917…

Our collaboration with the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning EATEL is featured in the latest highlights from the institutional members of the association. It is a short summary of our joint work with EATEL!

Congratulations to our researcher Mikhail Fominykh with reaching a research impact milestone!

Congratulations to ARIDLL partners and Andreas Kissmehl on the excellent presentation of our work at such a prestigious international conference!