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Article: UALR's Virtual Reality Center aiding businesses.(Higher Education)(University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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VIRTUAL REALITY HAS MOVED beyond the gaming world and into the business world.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, through its Virtual Reality Center, is offering virtual reality as a tool that lets businesses display their projects before breaking ground in the real world. "Imagine as an architect you could show a building to your client even before you start building it," said M. Eduard Tudoreanu, manager of the VRC. "We hope to draw businesses into this type of technology."
The VRC, in existence for six years, has served primarily as a teaching tool for students in the engineering department, but now the Donaghey College of Engineering & ...