Virtual Reality Lab
The VRLab course partners with local organizations to create virtual reality projects.
VRLab 2025: Making a Concert Film with WXPN
In the spring of 2025, we are partnering with WXPN to make a 360-degree concert film.
VRLab 2024: The Neumann Art Collection
In the fall of 2024, we created a virtual twin of art collector Hubert Neumann’s New York townhouse.
VRLab 2024: Telling Radiation Oncology Patient Stories
In the spring 2024 semester, we made 360-degree films about cancer patients going through proton therapy. Today, new patients have the opportunity to see these films before undergoing treatment.
VRLab 2023: Renovating the Penn Museum’s Egypt and Nubian Galleries
The Penn Museum’s Egypt and Nubian galleries are closed for several years while a team of expert researchers, curators, and conservators prepare the new exhibits. We used 360 cameras to take you behind the scenes at the museum.
VRLab 2020 & 2021: The Philadelphia Museum of Art
For two years during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Philadelphia Museum of Art curators and staff generously opened the galleries to us as we worked with them to make virtual reality documentary films about works in the collection.
VRLab 2018: The Heart of Puerto Rico
The Heart of Puerto Rico is a 13-part virtual reality docuseries about artists and politics in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Each chapter uses VR in a new way.
VRLab 2017: Inside the SEAMAAC Food Truck
In 2017, our Virtual Reality Lab class partnered with the refugee resentment organization SEAMAAC to make a 360-film about an experiment with refugees in Philadelphia and a food truck.
