Pre-COVID Events

29/10/2019 Vr Demo in F23 for The Sydney Summit II – Office of Global Engagement

23/10/19 OpenLab Visit by Cyberpsychology – Faculty of Medicine and Health

16/10/2019 VR PPE Donning and Doffing for Wetmead Hospital clinical experts

15-18/10/2019 NZSOHNS New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery Conference

4-5/10/2019 NOTSA Neuro-Otology Society of Australia Conference

4-6/10/2019 USyd SHFR included in the presentation by Karel Hulec – OPT-OUT Congress – Prague

01/10/2019 Chinese delegation of Neurologists and ENT surgeons visit the OpenLab

25/09/2019 Psychology VR Tour for Professor Willy Zwaenepoel – Dean of Engineering

19/09/2019 Professor Simon Bronitt Head of School and Dean of Law in a Virtual Court

10/09/2019 Sydney University Library Peer Learning Advisors (PLAs) VR training

05/09/2019 05/09/2019 Woolcock delegation – Sleep Researchers Tour of VR OpenLab

05/09/2019 OpenLab visit by the 2019 Dalyell Scholars (talented student program)

04/09/2019 DVC (Edu) Prof. Philippa Pattison, PVC (Edu Innovation) Prof. Adam Bridgeman

20/08/19: Visit of the Directors of Sydney University Museums

20/08/19: VR Tutorial for Physiology students

19/08/19: USyd Faculty of Science, Heads of School and School’s Managers

18/08/19: Brain Hub Academia Seminar

16/08/19: Facial Nerve Clinic presentation

14/08/19: Physiology lecture (PHSI911)

13/08/19: USyd Media and ABC journalist

12/08/19: Systems, Change and Learning (EDPC5024) course unit

01/08/19: Sydney University Vice Chancellor and Dean of Science visit

01/08/19: Vice Chancellor and Dean of Science visit (picture from the ‘green room’)

31/07/19: Gift Strategy Meeting

25/07/19: NSW Train visit

24/07/19: Michael Bowen and Lewis Martin (BMC) visit

22/07/19: Utrecht (Netherlands) Delegation

12/07/19: Office of Global Engagement visit

10/07/19: International Science School ~150 students 6 groups

06/07/19: Vet Science 3rd year students

02/07/19: Visit by Eduardo Delamare Sydney Dental School

29/06/19: Remote VR connection to the International Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology Teaching and Learning (ICMSTTL 2019)

28/06/19: Tina Allen visits to conduct interviews for the history of the GPRWMF

28/06/19: Visit by Associate Professor Kevin Keay (Head of Discipline) and Amanda Yung – Discipline of Anatomy and Histology, USyd

26/06/19: Visit by Associate Professor Ada Kritikos and Ms Jennifer Day – School of Psychology, University of Queensland

24/06/19: Sydney University Surgical Society (SUSS): VR and AR in surgery and medicine

19/06/19: Western NSW Health Research Network Symposium in Dubbo

12/06/19: University of Utrecht Visitors

30/05/19: Visit by the School of Chemistry

24/05/19: Trip to the Shanghai Forum 2019 to establish a new Collaboration with Fudan University on brain and intelligence science.

15/04/19: Central Queensland University Retreat

31/03/19: Surgical Innovators workshop

29/03/19: VR Tour for Mega Maths Day x 64

25/03/19 IAS: New + Emerging Technology in Surgery

23/03/19 ASOHNS Exhibition and Demonstrations all day

22/03/19: ASOHNS (Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head And Neck Surgery) Conference Presentation

22/03/19: University of Queensland Colloquium presentation

19/03/19: Army visit

14/03/19: Police Visit VR

14/03/19: Dutch Alumni

08/03/19: USyd, School of Psychology Colloquium presentation

7-8/03/19: Vet Science students exercise x135

04/03/19: PTSD Treatment Group Visit

15/12/18: USyd – Brain and Mind Centre – Virtual Reality Workshop

14/12/18: VR Demonstration for School Girls at the IAS

5/12/18: Andrew Black (Director, The Living Lab, Westmead at the University of Sydney) Remote Connection Connects to the Lab

3/12/18: Psych Research Retreat

22/11/18: NOTSA

15/11/18: VR Demonstration in the USyd Administration Building

13/11/2018: Visit by the President and delegation from the prestigious Fudan University (Shanghai, China).

13/11/2018: Visit by Professor Jan Wiener and colleagues after his talk on orientation and spatial navigation

24/10/2018: University of Sydney – Dalyell Showcase, Footbridge Theater

24/10/2018: PSYC3914 and Cyberpsychology (36 students in 4 groups)

17/10/2018: PSYC3013 Perceptual Systems, Virtual Reality Class

11/10/2018: Visit of Professor Jacqui Ramagge (HOS Mathematics and Statistics), Damien Field (HOS Life and Environmental Science), Philip Mcmanus (HOS Geosciences), and Frans Verstraten (HOS Psychology)

14/09/2018: International Keynote Lecture: Virtual Reality for Vestibular Education, Testing, and Rehabilitation. HENNIG Vertigo-Symposium 2018 Leipzig Germany

14/09/2018: vKIT MasterClass. HENNIG Vertigo-Symposium 2018 Leipzig Germany

20/09/2018: Careers in STEM Day – Workshop for 60 high school students (3 groups of 20)

31/08/2018: Frontiers 2018 Conference – Cairns Pullman International, Andrew Watson Photography

25/08/2018: Open Day 2018 – since most people have now seen simple 3DOF VR (Google Cardboard, Gear VR, Oculus Go…) the Psychology VR OpenLab showed 6DOF Room-Scale VR with multiple user interaction and full body avatars

17/08/2018: Founders’ Circle ceremony and dinner at The University of Sydney

17/08/2018: Professor Coman from The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation to visit the VR OpenLab

01/08/2018: VR presentation at the Research Partnership workshop during the Innovation week at the Sydney Business School

17/07/2018: Three new VR content developers to the VR OpenLab

12/07/2018: Indigenous STEMM workshop to visit the VR OpenLab

20/06/2018: A/Prof Payal Mukherjee and Dr Elodie Chiarovano presented at the Clinical Education Centre – Sydney Adventist Hospital for Inspiring Careers in STEMM and Healthcare

11/06/2018: Lecture on How to perform the video head impulse test and interpret the results

11/06/2018: A/Prof Hamish MacDougall received the Hallpike-Nylen medal by the Barany Society

06/06/2018: Sydney Science Faculty Forum

01/06/2018: School of Psychology, Colloquium

12/04/2018: Visit of Meegan Fitzharris, Minister for Health and Wellbeing (ACT), at the Institute of Academic Surgery (IAS), RPA

06/04/2018: Visit of Professor Chris Dennis, Associate Dean of the Medical School, North Shore

23/03/2018: Westmead Teaching Class: “Altering the mind with Virtual Reality”

 23/01/2018: Partner Engagement and Outreach, Faculty of Science Team Visit

 09-10/11/2017: Two days Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM) course  from the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)

03-04/11/2017: NEURO-OTOLOGY SOCIETY of AUSTRALIA (NOTSA) conference at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA)

After our two presentations:

Dr Chiarovano and Dr MacDougall. Scientist in the clinic.
Dr MacDougall. User Discovery for Medical Device Translation.

All attendees (~180) came to visit the OpenLab during lunch time…

02/11/2017: Vice-Chancellor’s Recognition Reception (VCRR) at The Great Hall, The University of Sydney

01/11/2017: University of Sydney Multimedia Producer from Brand and Marketing Services | Marketing and Communications for the University front page website

01/11/2017: University of Sydney Senate’s visit at Westmead Education and Conference Centre (WECC) – WSLHD

27/10/2017: NSW Health Innovation Symposium at Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park

Augmented Reality to Virtual Reality: From patient care to surgical simulation. By Dr Payal Mukherjee, Professor Jonathan Clark, Kai Cheng, Dr Hamish MacDougall, Dr Elodie Chiarovano, Professor Gordon Wallace

25/10/2017: OpenLab Tour and Demos for 22 students (Advanced PSYC 3014)

24/10/2017: Inaugural Barriers to Surgical Innovation meeting at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) NSW as part of Surgeons’ Month 2017

Discussion with the Minister for Health (New South Wales) – Mr Brad Hazzard

18/10/2017: Presentation of A10D project at the Nurse Unit Management (NUM) meeting at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

10/10/2017: Visit to MOD productions office (Haymarket, Sydney)

09/10/2017: Visit of the Westmead Redevelopment Team

06/10/2017: Make-A-Wish Foundation

Jack is an Astronaut for a day in collaboration with Opaque Media and their program Earthlight.

05/10/2017: Visit of a French delegation from the University of Bordeaux

26/09/2017: Visit of the Infectious Disease Education Training and Research Group from Westmead Hospital

23/09/2017: DISRUPT.SYDNEY™ conference at the Business School (Usyd)

15/09/2017: Sydney Concepts at the Huddle – Westmead Hospital

12/09/2017: AR/VR group’s meeting at the OpenLab

12/09/2017: Media and Communication (Usyd) students making a movie of the lab

22/08/2017: Visit of the Depute Vice Chancellor and Depute Vice Chancellor Research

23/06/2017: Sydney Local Health District – Innovation Symposium

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