
Virginia Tech was one of five institutions nationwide to receive the Microsoft HoloLens Academic Research Grant Award, including $100,000 and two Hololens Development Edition devices. The winning submission, titled “Collaborative Analysis of Large-scale Mixed Reality Data” was awarded to PI Joseph Gabbard (an Associate Professor of Human Factors, ISE @ VT) and Co-PI Doug Bowman (Professor of CS), with support from several faculty in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction’s 3DExperiences group.