GOAL
The goal of this VR laboratory is to introduce students to Virtual Reality (VR) hardware, software, and provide an opportunity for them to apply this knowledge to applications for education and games. This laboratory applies cutting-edge VR technology currently available in academia and industry. The lab applies research methods from social science, artificial intelligence, software engineering, data science, and data visualization to address the challenge of including social, emotional, and communication factors in several applications, including healthcare and evacuation.

MISSION
The students and faculty are pioneering the use of VR, AR, MR, XR technology in areas such as data visualization, evacuation, way finding, battlefield simulation, emergency response, healthcare, education, and classroom environment. We are also exploring agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) and multi-agent system (MAS) for evacuation and decision making systems. We study human behavior during evacuations for emergency and terror events. We strongly believe in testing our research with practice and actively seek collaboration with industry.

ACTIVITIES
VR Laboratory consists of VR Software Lab and VR Hardware Lab in Room No. CSB 312 and Room No. CSB 106 respectively. The hardware lab provides students and researchers with high quality 3D gaming workstations, stereoscopic displays (corner cave, 3D wall), head mounted displays (HTC vive, hololens, oculus) motion trackers, 3D input devices, and force feedback devices. Our current research projects focus in areas of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science (DS), and Software Engineering (SE).