The University of Rochester is launching a new Center for Extended Reality and has hired a leader in the optics industry to run it.
Barry Silverstein is a University of Rochester graduate and former senior director of optics and display research at Meta. He has worked on optical engineering at Kodak, laser projection technology at IMAX, and AR and VR hardware research at Meta’s Reality Labs.
The Center for Extended Reality, known as CXR, is designed to bring together researchers to study and develop technologies that combine augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
Silverstein said extended reality has potential across many fields, including medicine…