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• Realism of the Unseen: New Art & Science Exhibition of Works by ITMO Master’s Students

  What are digital immortality and xenotransplantation? Can we discover new means of communication between animals and humans? How – and why – can you try on some bacterial makeup? And do cats go to their own digital paradise? Find answers to these unexpected questions in the creations of ITMO Art & Science students, showcased at the exhibition Realism of the Unseen. The exhibition is on until August 11 at ITMO’s AIR space.

  30.07.2024

• What Is the Metaverse?

  These days, metauniverse is a buzzword and is often used in entertainment. Fashion companies create unique outfits for virtual avatars, celebrities launch NFTs and perform live in metaworlds – even new metabanks and metahotels are opening online. But does the metaverse hold a promise for science and education? Will we one day have a meta-ITMO? And how will the associated technologies change in the near future? Let’s answer these questions with Alexander Kapitonov, dean of the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. 

  12.08.2022

• Unique VR Experiences Created by ITMO Students

  If you’ve ever wanted to cook in the kitchen from Ratatouille, travel to the past, or peek inside the human body, you can now do that with projects developed by graduates of ITMO’s Computer Technologies in Design Bachelor’s program. Read on for backstage development stories of Matrix-inspired virtual realities and cartoon-like sets.

  11.08.2022

• Pending Futures Exhibition: ITMO Art & Science Students Reflect Upon Isolation and Secret Life of Plants

  ITMO students became part of the Pending Futures project – a group exhibition that features works of contemporary artists from the Netherlands and Russia. The exhibition will run till September 15 on the Art Catch Exhibition Room online platform.

  08.09.2021

• International AR & VR Conference Wrap Up: Virtual Museums and Remakes of Soviet Games

  In mid-August, the Tochka Kipeniya (Boiling Point) platform based at St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation hosted the International Conference of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies in Creative Industries. The event was held within the cross-border cooperation program Interreg Baltic Sea Region 2014-2020.

  07.09.2021

• ITMO's School Team Wins Varwin VR Hackathon

  School students from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center won first prize in an international VR hackathon with their simulation of a cell laboratory.

  01.09.2021

• Technology in Chemistry: Positive Effect of VR on Students’ Academic Performance

  Three years ago, ITMO University implemented a VR class for first-year students studying inorganic chemistry. As noted by the university's teachers and MEL Science developers, the immersive experience had a positive impact,  increasing students’ learning progress by 20%. The results of the experiment were published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

  26.07.2021

• ITMO Student and Sirius & Rosneft Joint Program Moderator Yulia Shutova: Don’t Say Something Is Impossible, Just That It’s Needed to Be Done

  ITMO University first-year Master’s student Yulia Shutova was invited by the Sirius research and education center to become one of the moderators of its program for school students, implemented by the center in collaboration with the Rosneft company. As part of the program, school students take part in the development of IT concepts for the tasks faced by the company, one of the leaders of the oil market. ITMO.NEWS spoke to Yulia to find out what lessons she got from working with children, how VR technologies could be of use in oil production and how her Master’s project helped in solving one of the tasks set by Rosneft.

  13.12.2019

• ITMO Laboratory Head Irina Livshitz on a Secret Advantage of Russian Optics, VR and Differences Between Russian and International Students

  Before the start of a new academic year, head of ITMO University’s Research Laboratory for Computer-Aided Design of Optical-Information and Energy Saving Systems Irina Livshitz gave ten classes as part of the summer school at the University of Eastern Finland, an ITMO University partner. She spoke about the development of augmented and virtual reality systems. ITMO.NEWS met Prof. Livshitz to learn about where to start with optical systems design, whether Russian students are any different from their international counterparts, and will it be possible to make VR headsets comfortable for wearing. 

  24.09.2019