XR Lab Blog

Interested in building immersive, interactive environments that blend the physical and digital worlds? AR/VR Development Certificate Program starts Fall 2026.… Read more: Step Into the Future of AR/VR

XR Club Meetup on Thursday, April 30th. 3:00-4:00 p.m. in room D126P. Snacks Provided! Join us for VR Boxing and… Read more: Join Us for XR Club MeetUp

Bellevue College will host Expanding Horizons with XR, a half-day free hybrid conference on immersive technologies in higher education. Created… Read more: Expanding Horizons with XR

Join this hands on XR development and client collaboration course offered in Winter, 2026. Students will learn XR tools and… Read more: Explore the Exciting World of XR in DMA 294!

Engage with community members working to protect marine life and lead sustainable change. This interactive event features conversations, student projects,… Read more: Join the XR Lab at the Voices of Action Event

RSVP to the Event The event is sponsored by the NW XR Open Initiative NSF grant, and it will be held in the… Read more: XR Lab Open House August 15th

The Bellevue College XR Lab is continuing to use ShapesXR as a presentation tool for student projects. ShapesXR is a… Read more: Empowering Students with Presentation Tools of the Future

This quarter, students from Professor Reza Forough’s Biology 241: Human Anatomy and Physiology I class at Bellevue College partnered with… Read more: Bellevue College Biology Students Innovate with XR

Today, students from CMST116: Introduction to XR and the Metaverse, taught by Bruce Wolcott and James Riggall, participated in a… Read more: Exploring the Future of XR: CMST116 Visits MXTreality

This quarter, the Bellevue College XR Lab had the opportunity to interview the Global Game Jam 2025 champions from Bellevue… Read more: Team Lobster Wins Global Game Jam 2025 with “Dirty Bubbles”

This spring, Bellevue College’s Computer Science Department welcomed a visiting delegation from Keimyung University in South Korea for a week… Read more: Bellevue College Hosts Keimyung University Delegation for NextGen Startup Challenge and XR Lab Visit

DMA 294 “XR Development and Client Collaboration” Course overview Our XR Development & Client Collaboration courses at Bellevue College aim… Read more: Seeking XR Lab Project Proposals for our DMA 294 Students

This brief workshop was delivered to faculty members at Connected learning’s Summer Institute! “Identity, Your Avatar, and You!” is a… Read more: Identity, Your Avatar, and You!

We bring these musical models to life for educational purposes, we utilized Spline, a free 3D design tool that supports real-time collaboration, allowing for the creation of interactive web experiences directly in the browser.

The goal of this project was to create a showcase of AI technologies in VR.

In this project, our aim was to create an enjoyable tour of a space that hasn’t been built yet. Using… Read more: Creating immersive tours with SeekBeak

We are always thinking about how we can take advantage of new mixed reality technologies to educate people in different… Read more: Mixed Reality for safety training

In this prototype, we’ve fine-tuned ChatGPT using oral history interview transcripts of World War II pilot Dick Nelms, a former… Read more: Ask the Pilot: AI-Enhanced Exploration of WWII Veteran Narratives

In this educational experiment, we explore the intersection of virtual brainstorming, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Augmented Reality (AR). Our video… Read more: Virtual Brainstorming Meets AI & AR: An Educational Experiment

Animation has the power to bring your architectural designs to life. Our latest interior design visualization experiment focuses on the… Read more: Creating Stunning Interior Design Animation with Twin motion and Cesium for Unreal

Nestled in the beautiful Tuscan landscape, the 14th-century Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore has been a source of inspiration for… Read more: 3D Scanned Italian Abbey & Interactive Enigma: A Prototype Experience with iPhone and AI

This blog post highlights our journey with Bezi, participating in two exciting challenges, and delves into our experience using this versatile tool.

At the intersection of technology and ecology, we’ve developed EcoVerse, a location-based Augmented Reality (AR) experience created with Adobe Aero’s… Read more: EcoVerse: a location-based AR experience

In our latest initiative, we delve into the integration of geospatial visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance community decision-making… Read more: Youth Art Center in Seattle: AI & 3D Mapping Prototype for Community Planning

On behalf of the Black Employees of Bellevue College (BEOBC), The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Black Student Union,… Read more: Virtual Seattle Black History Tour

Customer service is an essential part of any business, and companies invest a lot of resources in training their employees… Read more: Customer support simulator using Unity 3D and ChatGPT

Phygital+ is an Al Workspace for visual creators and design teams that combines 20+ Al networks in a NoCode tool.… Read more: Creating Non-Human Characters from Music Videos with AI

For this proof of concept we wanted to create an immersive storytelling experience using AI technology. We utilized ChatGPT to… Read more: The Vanished Heiress – A ChatGPT immersive story

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and photogrammetry are both techniques for creating 3D models of real-world scenes, but they differ in… Read more: Creating 3D models from real-world scenes

ChatGPT is an AI tool that can chat with you like a human. It’s trained on massive amounts of internet… Read more: How to train your own OpenAI model with no code

Discover our newest prototype merging 3D models and immersive environments for interactive interior design. Utilizing advanced features of 3DVista Virtual… Read more: Transform Your Room in Real Time

Interactive eLearning and the XRLab co-hosted a college-wide symposium discussing the pros and cons of the new artificial intelligence tools… Read more: Navigating the AI Revolution

This e-learning experience was developed using Coohom and 3DVista. Users are situated in a space that either follows or violates… Read more: eLearning – Interior Design

This virtual tour prototype is a combination of several immersive and 3D technologies coming together in a single cohesive experience.… Read more: The Hydrodynamic Power Station virtual tour

In this new demo, we explore how 3D models can be used as anchors for interactive stories. In particular, we… Read more: Storytelling in 3D: Top use cases of AI and XR in health care

Bellevue College instructor and commercial graphic designer Morgan Olson delivered a one hour workshop about DALL-E, an online image generation… Read more: XR Lab Hosts a DALL-E Workshop

In this prototype we explore how to combine spatial and media information into a cohesive AR presentation. The map was… Read more: Bellevue College AR Map

We have been exploring the latest AI technologies and decided to put all of them together in a virtual gallery created in Mozilla Hubs. It… Read more: AI Exploration Hall

This project was created for the BeeKeeping student club as a tool to get more students involved on it. We… Read more: Kinect flight simulator (Beeline project)

During the spring of 2022 the Bellevue College XR Lab supported different students that were working on their capstone projects,… Read more: XR Lab Capstone Projects – Spring 2022

In collaboration with the Allied Health Department, the XR Lab created a guided tour of the T-Building for students and… Read more: Allied Health Orientation Tour

The Bellevue College XR Lab is working on a cross-media project about Captain Dick Nelms, a B-17 pilot who flew… Read more: Captain Dick Nelms cross-media project

The XR Lab has also partnered with RISE Makerspace at BC to provide mentorship and equipment to Stem to Stern students and to help… Read more: BC Global Game Jam