On the second floor of Colorado State University’s Health Education Outreach Center, 100 virtual reality headsets hang from retractable plant hangers in the immersive learning teaching lab. The product of tireless years of dedication and hard work, each hosts a cutting edge anatomic learning software produced by the Clapp Laboratory.
Bearing the namesake of Tod Clapp, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences associate dean of academic and student affairs, the laboratory’s focus shifted after the commercialization of Meta Quest headsets.
“My lab’s really focused on data visualization,” Clapp said. “In 2017, when we saw the headsets for virtual reality start to become commercially available, we started to look into, what do they do?”…