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Multi-Campus VR Session Tours Remote Cave Art

Campus Technology: The University of Oklahoma and several other institutions recently held what they believe to be the first multi-state, multi-campus virtual reality class. The event, which occurred in mid-September, allowed participants from multiple locations to tour a remote cave with rare archaic art located on private land and therefore inaccessible to the public.

The initiative brought together 15 participants in all, from two separate physical locations at OU as well as two locations at the University of Central Oklahoma, the University of Arizona and Archaeology Southwest, a Tucson nonprofit conservation organization that finds "innovative ways" to share sites. The session leader worked from a home office. Everybody was connected in a shared virtual reality space.

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