Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise’s mission is completely focused on immersive technologies and ways that we can implement those technologies to help Louisiana’s businesses, schools, research facilities and our community at large, and also by being an educator on the advances of technology today.

Immersive technology, or virtual reality, has become a lot more common over the last decade, especially with the growth of 3D technologies for the entertainment industry. Movies, video games, and even our home televisions now have the capabilities to provide content in 3D, but the functionality of immersive technologies can go even further than where they are today.

So a great starting point is to truly understand what immersive technologies are, and how they can be useful to you. For starters the dictionary definition of immersive is the “generation of a three-dimensional image that appears to surround the user.” This means that an environment is created to simulate either a physical or fictional world. These images can be created by either data that already exists, such as Computer Aided Design drawings of buildings or ships, or simply by the imagination of someone that sees the need to create the virtual environment. Add in the use of 3D glasses and motion tracking sensors, and you now have the ability to ‘immerse’ yourself into that virtual world — just like you are really there.



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