Virtual Mojave Desert

Seniors Nick Hager (pictured below), Ahmed Elsayed, Ben Grabau, and Jasper Kim worked in the lab supervised by capstone instructor John Stratton to develop a virtual geology lab activity set in the Mojave Desert. Geology professor Lyman Persico and his team used a drone to digitize a terrain elevation map.

Virtual Reality (VR) Computer Science senior capstone project explores virtual Mojave desert dataset from professor Lyman Persico.

In this video example, a student uses the VR hand controllers to measure a difference in terrain elevation. Students use a virtual teleport effect to move between signposts whose text gives the lab instructions.