LITE

IEEE Virtual Reality is the world’s premier international technical conference on all aspects of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, and will take March 14-18, 2009 at UL in the Cajundome Convention Center.

Open house activities will include a prototype visualization of a rural coastal area of Louisiana based on LIDAR data provided by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). LIDAR is a remote sensing technology used by NOAA to collect topographic data.

Open House Scheduled for Wednesday, January 7th

Lafayette is building the fastest community intranet in the world. ultoday.com interviews LUS Director and UL alumnus Terry Huval, the engineer behind Lafayette's bid for world-wide leadership in Internet connectivity.

The public is invited to two talks at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise center on November 20th by Dr. Alexander Martynov, formely of the Russian Space Agency.

The LITE staff invites you to a presentation by Cynthia Beth Rubin "Painterly Thoughts: Computers and Expressive Language" on Thursday, November 6 from 6:00—8:00pm. Presentation in theatre at 6:00pm, Meet and Greet in lobby at 7:00pm.

Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) has named Dr. Albert L. Baker as its Director of Business Development.

One of the key industries in Lafayette and South Louisiana has been the oil industry, and UL has produced some of the best engineers in the field. Dr. Ali Ghalambor talks about the Department of Petroleum Engineering.

University to create NAFISAT & Bentonville virtual environment. ULL also enters into marketing deal with all 4,000 WalMart stores.

The new Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise in University Research Park has hosted visitors from as far away as China, Japan, Korea, France, England, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia and Australia. Not bad for a facility that just opened. LITE’s guest list proves what its creators predicted: Build a unique immersive visualization environment and the world will beat a path to your door.