XR Lab

The Extended Reality Lab is located on the main floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library.

XR Lab staff will be onsite to provide an orientation of the Lab and to offer assistance throughout your visit. 

Hours

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, by appointment only. 

Terms of use

• No food or drink allowed.
• If you are late, you may forfeit your session.
• You must be 18 years of age or older.
• You must be a current University of Manitoba student, faculty or staff member.
• Review the app catalogue before use and submit a list of applications you wish to use during your session in the booking process.
• You must accept and sign the waiver of liability in the booking form.

Book a session

Sessions are available in 50-minute time slots, with a maximum of 2 sessions per user.

Book a session 

The Extended Reality (XR) Lab transforms teaching and research by providing UM students, faculty, and staff with cutting-edge, immersive learning tools.

The lab’s catalogue of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality applications offers profound benefits by:

• Elevating teaching and learning: Students gain an experiential understanding of complex, distant, or abstract subjects through interactive environments. Examples include virtually dissecting cells (InCell), visualizing astronomical data (Galactic Center VR), manipulating mathematical concepts (GeoGebra MR), or walking through historical sites like the Anne Frank House VR. The lab democratizes access to learning that would otherwise be geographically or physically impossible.
• Accelerating research: Faculty and researchers can utilize the platform for advanced data visualization (e.g., Materials VR), collaborative design, and simulating real-world phenomena (e.g., Greenland Melting based on NASA data). Tools like EON-XR empower subject matter experts to easily create their own XR content, establishing the lab as a hub for innovation and scholarly creation across all disciplines.

The XR Lab acts as a portal, moving education beyond textbooks and empowering the UM community to learn, discover, and build in three dimensions.