1. Required reading:
"Hank Virtual Environments Laboratory," a two-page brochure giving an overview of
the lab you'll visit.
Also, spend a few minutes searching the web for other information about virtual reality/virtual
environments technology or applications. Newspapers, for instance, frequently have
articles discusses new applications. For example,
this is a recent New York Times article on a game-like simulation/virtual environment to help
relieve Iraq war trauma.
2. Required writing:
Based on your reading/web-searching write one-half to one page on your thoughts about the Hank lab and/or
virtual reality/virtual environments in general. Can you think of interesting uses for virtual
reality/environment technology? If so, what do you think might be the difficulties in realizing such
applications?