Virtual Reality 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:17:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Dan Pacheco /faculty-experts/dan-pacheco/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:11:51 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=169572 Dan Pacheco holds the Peter A. Horvitz Chair of Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School聽and is a pioneer in the use of virtual reality for journalism. In 2014 he started and co-produced The Des Moines Register鈥檚聽Harvest of Change聽VR project for the Oculus Rift, the world鈥檚 first large-scale use of virtual reality by a commercial news organization. Harvest of Change earned an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2015 for its innovative use of 360-degree video for virtual reality.

Previously, Pacheco spent 20 years in the trenches of digital publishing everywhere from Fortune 500 companies to startups. He started his career as an online producer for Washingtonpost.com, where he produced Interact, one of the first online news communities. Subsequently, as a principal product manager at America Online, he oversaw some of the internet鈥檚 first truly global community products. In 2005, after pioneering the first implementation of a social networking platform at a U.S. newspaper, he received an NAA 鈥�20 Under 40鈥� award. And in 2007, he received a Knight News Challenge grant to build a democratized publishing service that evolved into an eBook platform.

When he鈥檚 not teaching, Pacheco is busy exploring new technologies shaping the future of media, which lately means augmented and mixed聽reality, social VR, chatbots and smart speaker skills.

]]> Justin Ehrlich /faculty-experts/justin-ehrlich/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:41:01 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=147376 Justin Ehrlich, Ph.D.,聽 has published several papers in sport data visualization and analysis in Public Choice, Mathematical Social Sciences, Games, and the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport. He has conducted many talks and live demonstrations on sport data computation, visualization, and analysis that incorporate use of Tableau (with VizQL), R, Python, and D3.

Ehrlich鈥檚 research has received support from the U.S. Department of Education, the U3E, and from Falk College. He was awarded the Moore Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the University of Kansas School of Engineering, the Provost鈥檚 Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching with Technology from Western Illinois University, and several awards from WIU鈥檚 College of Business and Technology.

Ehrlich earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kansas in 2010. His dissertation was titled, 鈥淭he Effect of Desktop Illumination Realism on Presence and Generalization in a Virtual Learning Environment.鈥� He also holds a computer science M.S. earned in 2007 from Wichita State University, and an accounting and business administration B.B.A., earned in 2004 from Friends University in Wichita, KS.

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