Ever wondered how the fun selfie filters on Instagram are created? It’s easier than you think!
Create your own custom effects with Spark AR Studio, a free AR tool. With this platform, you can incorporate images and 3D models, animation, interaction, and more into filters without knowing how to code. During this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of creating effects and how to publish them to Instagram. We’ll also provide some custom UR assets, so you can spread that Meliora spirit!
Join Studio X, UR’s hub for immersive technologies, and learn more about the digitalworld of extended reality (XR). All levels welcome. No experience necessary!
Note: Attendees will need a Facebook account and to download Spark AR studio (Mac and PC) as well as the Spark AR app (iOS and Android) for testing ahead of time.Need assistance with this process? Ask for help on the Studio X Discord (Quick Questions Channel).
Hang out with friends and play fun virtual reality games at a cozy Studio X pop-up at iZone! There will be donuts, cider, and swag up for grabs (warm Studio X beanies).
Games will be playing…
Acron: Attack of the Squirrels
Beat Saber
First Steps
Epic Roller Coasters
Job Simulator
iB Cricket
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR series
Where: iZone Forum When: Thursday, 11/3 from 4 to 6pm
Join the Ain Center for our new workshop series, Build Your Entrepreneurial Foundation Block-by-Block! These workshops are designed to help student innovators and entrepreneurs learn more about special tools, resources, approaches, and concepts that could help them with their projects and career paths.
Our second edition of the Block-by-Block series is in partnership with Studio X. This workshop will help innovators learn about how they can use XR technologies to implement their ideas. Come and explore the opportunities with XR technologies!
Create the spooktacular 3D character of your nightmares! This workshop focuses on asset creation with the 3D modeling software, Blender. This open-source and free software has become the industry standard over the last couple of years. Learn how to navigate its workspace, tools, and hotkeys and become familiar with one of the most popular platforms of the industry. You will create a low-polygon model using provided reference images. Your model can then potentially be used as avatars in other XR projects or 3D workspaces such as Unity.
Join Studio X, UR’s hub for immersive technologies, and learn more about the digital world of extended reality (XR). All levels welcome. No experience necessary!
Note: Workshop attendees must bring a laptop with Blender installed. Please download this ahead of time.
Instructor: Nefle Nesli Oruç Where: Studio X, First Floor Carlson Library When: Tuesday, October 25th from 6 to 7:30pm Register: libcal.lib.rochester.edu/event/9660772
Learn the basics of 360 recording and editing with Studio X’s Insta360 cameras. Create fun effects like stop motion, cloning, and tiny planet clips that can be used for all kinds of projects from social media to music videos.
Join Studio X, UR’s hub for immersive technologies, and learn more about the digitalworld of extended reality (XR). All levels welcome. No experience necessary!
Participants will need to download the free Insta360 Studio 2022 editing software to their own computers (available on both PC and Mac) prior to the workshop. Need assistance with this process? Ask for help on the Studio X Discord (Quick Questions Channel).
Relax, take a break, and play VR games in Studio X! We’ll provide good music, fun games, and a relaxing vibe. Bring your friends and come have fun.
Join Studio X, UR’s hub for immersive technologies, and learn more about the digitalworld of extended reality (XR). All levels welcome. No experience necessary!
Where: Studio X, Carlson Library First Floor When: Friday, October 7th at 1pm
Drop by Studio X every Friday at 1pm for informal workshops, talks, demos, and more! View the full schedule.
A Wilmot Cancer Institute scientist published data that show a new microchip-like device that his lab developed can reliably model changes in the bone marrow as leukemia takes root and spreads.
Ben Frisch, PhD, holds the bone-marrow-on-chip device in his lab.
Ben Frisch, Ph.D., assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester, and colleagues have been building what is known as a modular bone-marrow-on-chip to enhance the investigation of leukemia stem cells. The tiny device recapitulates the entire human bone marrow microenvironment and its complex network of cellular and molecular components involved in blood cancers.
Similar tissue-chip systems have been developed by others, but they lack two key features contained in Frisch’s product: osteoblast cells, which are crucial to fuel leukemia, and a readily available platform.
The fact that Frisch’s 3D model has been published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and is not a one-off fabrication will allow others in the field to adopt a similar approach using the available microfluidics system, he said.
In collaboration with The Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery, Studio X, and the Humanities Center, Experiencing Civic Life students captured 360 degree photos of a select set of monuments and memorials in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Aiming to create an informative, virtual experience of Mt. Hope, our students produced brief reports about the monuments as well as the people they commemorate.
Ezra Andrews (1828 – 1900)
By: RaeVonna Houser
One of Rochester’s foremost community leaders of the 19th century was Ezra Andrews. He was born March 16, 1828. He co-owned Rochester’s Democrat newspaper. He died August 13, 1900.
William B. Morse (1824 – 1904) and Frances Case Morse (1841 – 1933)
By: Willem Oliveiri
This is the grave site of the Morse family within the Mt. Hope cemetery. The Morse family made many contributions to the city of Rochester. William B. Morse was very passionate about his family and his lumber business. He made many contributions to the lumber industry of Rochester, which continues to this day run by his great grandchildren.
Frances Case Morse was the wife of William B. Morse and made many contributions towards the city of Rochester. She was a friend and a neighbor of Susan B. Anthony, and she supported the women’s suffrage movement.
George Baldwin Seldon (1846 – 1922)
By: Josiah Brown
George Baldwin Seldon was born in Clarkson NY and attended the University of Rochester. His father was a republican attorney who was most known for defending Susan B. Anthony. George dropped out of school early to join the Union Army, but his father convinced him to leave the military and enroll at Yale to study law. After school he practiced law and pursued work as an inventor. He is best known for establishing a patent for the first automobile.
Chester Dewey (1784 – 1867)
By: Jhy’Asia Jackson
Chester Dewey was born in Massachusetts 1784 and died in 1867. He erected a school which later became School 58/World Of Inquiry.
Leonard Henkle (1834 – 1904)
By: Ariane Cisse
Leonard Henkle was originally from Ohio. He lived several years with the Sioux, a people he cared about. He later joined the Civil War as a musician. He eventually moved to Rochester and became an inventor. One of his well known inventions was called “The rochester lamp.”
M. Louise Stowell (1861 – 1930)
By: Infinity Hernandez
M. Louise Stowell was an amazing artist who also specialized in water painting.Louise was born January 1st 1861 at Hornell, NY but moved to Rochester with her family when she was a baby. Louise was the daughter of Thomas P. Stowell, who was a mathematician and an insurance adjuster, and her mother, Henrietta Fowler. Stowell was a child of 5.
M. Louise Stowell went to The Art Students League of New York. Louise helped shape Rochesters Art club. Louise taught at what’s now known as R.I.T. Louise inspired artists all around the world and even was the only female to win a prize in a German poster contest which gained her international admirers. Louise had a huge impact on the economy of Rochester’s art culture.Louise influenced Ellis (a fellow student of hers when she was in art school) who took on a similar art style as Louise even though others thought he influenced her. M. Louise Stowell sadly stopped making art in 1909 and started running an imported goods shop till she died in February 1930. M. Louise Stowells brilliance will forever live through her art.Thank you for helping to open eyes to the world of art.
George Clarkson (1811 – 1905)
By: Tiketa Thomas
An immigrant from Edinburgh, Scotland, George Clarkson served as the 39th Mayor of Rochester, New York. He was known for actively seeking out the deaf community to see how he could provide a better environment for their students. He took the initiative to start a series of conversations about the quality of care that deaf children were receiving. His efforts led to the foundation of Rochester’s School for the Deaf.
Fletcher Steele (1885 – 1971)
By: Ciara Jones
Fletcher Steele was born in Rochester on June 7th, 1885 and passed at the ripe old age of 86 on July 16th, 1971. Steele was an architect and went to Harvard for graduate school. Starting from 1915 he built over 700 gardens. He wanted to build from the moment his mother commented on a pretty site in Turk Hill. She described how beautiful it was and from that very moment he wanted to build things for people so that they could also see things that are beautiful.
Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897 – 1969)
By: Syd Ferree
Margaret Strong was an eccentric collector born to a wealthy family living in Rochester. She collected a great many items throughout her life including toys, magazines, buttons, doorknobs, lamps, artwork, model ships, furniture, clothing, coins, stamps, and the list goes on. Her collection is varied in its scope and large in size, containing more than 300,000 items.
She showed interest as a young child in collecting toys, something that only grew with age as she accompanied her parents on trips overseas. By the time of her death, her collection of dolls numbered 22,000, and her collection of bookplates 84,000. In 1968 she created a state charter that would turn her estate into the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum of Fascination, and provided 100,000,000 dollars for its construction. It was started in 1973 and was not finished until 1982. Her massive collection of toys and other objects provides not only a source of amusement for Rochester, but a source of education and information about things made in the past.
Zebulon Hebard (1793 – 1852)
By: David Buyon
Zebulon Hebard was born August 1, 1793 and died February 23, 1852. Hebard founded “Hebard’s Steam Marble Works” on south St Paul. The masonry is the oldest stone business in Western NY.
Rochester researchers will harness the immersive power of virtual reality to study how the brain processes light and sound.
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Rochester is collaborating on a project to use virtual reality (VR) to study how humans combine and process light and sound. The first project will be a study of multisensory integration in autism, motivated by prior work showing that children with autism have atypical multisensory processing.
The project was initially conceived by Shui’er Han, a postdoctoral research associate, and Victoire Alleluia Shenge ’19, ’20 (T5), a lab manager, in the lab of Duje Tadin, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences.
“Most people in my world—including most of my work—conduct experiments using artificial types of stimuli, far from the natural world,” Tadin says. “Our goal is to do multisensory research not using beeps and flashes, but real sounds and virtual reality objects presented in realistically looking VR rooms.”
Members of the team begin the setup for audio and visual data collection. From left to right are Shui’er Han, a postdoctoral research fellow in Duje Tadin’s lab; brain and cognitive sciences major Betty Wu ’23; computer science and business major and e5 student Haochen Zeng ’23, who works in River Campus Libraries’s Studio X; and Victoire Alleluia Shenge ’19, ’20 (Take Five), who earned her degree in brain and cognitive sciences and is a manager in Tadin’s lab.
A cognitive scientist, a historian, and an electrical engineer walk into a room . . .
Tadin’s partners in the study include Emily Knight, an incoming associate professor of pediatrics, who is an expert on brain development and multisensory processing in autism. But in creating the virtual reality environment the study participants will use—a virtual version of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester—Tadin formed collaborations well outside his discipline.
Faculty members working on this initial step in the research project include Ming-Lun Lee, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Michael Jarvis, an associate professor of history. Several graduate and undergraduate students are also participating.
Many of the tools they’ll use come from River Campus Libraries—in particular, Studio X, the University’s hub for extended reality projects, as well as the Digital Scholarship department. Emily Sherwood, director of Studio X and Digital Scholarship, is leading the effort to actually construct the virtual replica of Kodak Hall.
The group recently gathered in the storied performance space to collect the audio and visual data that Studio X will rely on. University photographer J. Adam Fenster followed along to document the group’s work.
ThinkReality: Helping Build the Enterprise Metaverse
John Haddick is a Distinguished Engineer with the Lenovo Intelligent Devices Group, which focuses on developing technologies for the ThinkReality commercial AR/VR portfolio of solutions. As the CTO of ThinkReality, John is a leading strategist for AR/VR product design and development for the company.
Prior to joining Lenovo, John was the CTO of the Osterhout Design Group, a company pioneering AR technologies, where he was in charge of new product innovations and long range product strategy across the company.
In this talk, he will describe Lenovo’s investment and development of commercial AR/VR solutions. From the ThinkReality software, one of the industry’s first cloud and device agnostic platforms, to the award-winning AR smart glasses, Lenovo is making it easier for enterprises to deploy and scale AR/VR.
Where: Studio X & Zoom When: Friday, April 29th from 1 to 2pm EDT Register:bit.ly/VoXRJohnHaddick
Voices of XR is a Studio X speaker series. Speakers are scholars, artists, and extended reality professionals who discuss their work with immersive technologies across disciplines and industries. All talks are free and open to the general public.
