Qualcomm Institute’s Virtual Reality Cave Offers 3D Experience – KPBS Science
Researchers at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego are commemorating the second year of the Suncave. KPBS Science and Technology reporter Shalina Chatlani took advantage of the occasion to do some high-tech spelunking - or cave exploring.Will Supercomputers Create Virtual Maps of Your Body in the Future? – Seeker
Larry Smarr has been collecting 3D visualizations and detailed data on his body for almost a decade, amassing it all into a VR medical avatar of himself.FuturePatient – Larry Smarr, PhD
The full recording of computer scientist Larry Smarr presenting ten years of his personal health data on the Visualization Wall at his institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego.Look twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.
Cyber-archaeology, Big data and the race to save threatened cultural heritage sites – UC News
"People have been destroying material culture representations of their enemies for millennia,” said Thomas Levy, distinguished professor of anthropology at UC San Diego and director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute.