SIDLIT 2026: Full Schedule

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12:30pm CDT

Thursday July 30, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT

This workshop provides an overview of Extended Reality (XR) and teaches the audience how to create a VR learning environment for educational purposes. The presentation includes two parts:

Part 1: The Concept of XR (10 mins)
Dr. He will clarify the technical distinctions between XR, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), and these modalities' relationship to the physical world and the typical scenarios to apply these different "R"s.

Part 2: The Skills of Creating VR (80 mins)
Dr. He will demonstrate and guide the audience through a hands-on process to learn how to create a VR learning environment using a free, web-based platform called FrameVR. A laptop is required for this workshop. The audience will learn how to register a FrameVR account, how to customize their avatars, how to navigate FrameVR, how to create and edit objects, and how to make the objects interactive. The audience will create a VR learning environment during the remaining time.

Speakers

Wenyi Lu

Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia

Dr. Hao He is currently a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. His research covers extended reality (XR, including VR, AR, and MR) learning environments, game-based learning, and creativity fostering. He earned his... Read More →

Thursday July 30, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
VH 242 1701 Morse Drive, Emporia, KS 66801

Educational Technologies, Workshop

Skill Level Novice
Audience K-12, Higher Education, Public Sector/Government
Keywords Instructional Technology, Media in Online Classes, Emerging Technologies
Role Faculty/Instructors, Librarians, Technologists, Instructional Designer

SIDLIT 2026

12:30pm CDT

Wenyi Lu

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