Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program:
UArizona Holodeck: Health, Wellbeing, and Design Thinking is an immersive, collaborative, virtual/physical research environment accelerating convergence science and innovation at the UArizona. This VIP opportunity is exciting as it will empower an exceptionally broad range of research activities in laboratories and “in the wild,” including AR/VR, JEDI Aquanautics, curriculum development, education, and technology development. It will facilitate design thinking and engineering research with multi-stakeholder activities, including, project design, humanitarian engineering, and wicked problem-solving. Collectively these will advance the UArizona’s mission and capacity to tackle society’s grand challenges.