Fellowship helps VR research move from diagnosis to intervention
In a cinder block basement room in Pearson Hall, inconspicuously down the corridor from the student swimming pools, Geoffrey Wright and his computer programmers create virtual realities. Wright, associate professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, runs the Motion-Action-Perception (MAP) lab, where his team develops immersive fantasy landscapes to help diagnose real-world balance and motor skills impairments.
Now, with a new Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio fellowship from Temple, Wright will spend a year building a new generation of software tools, e...