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Students Develop VR Campus Tour of Lehigh U

A group of students at Lehigh University (LU) have created a virtual reality (VR) app that allows potential students to tour the campus from their mobile devices.

Vertra offers a 360-degree view of LU’s buildings, laboratories, Greek houses as well as popular off-campus attractions.

“The app arose from a group project for an entrepreneurship class taught by professors Joshua Ehrig and James Peterson,” according to a report from The Brown and White, LU’s student newspaper. “The project was originally going to be on virtual reality concert streaming, but the creators wanted to make a product people would need instead.”

Vertra’s creators – students Asanté Asiedu, Nick Zambas and Alex Spiezio – are in talks with other universities to create similar products for their campuses.

To view the VR campus tour, visit the Vertra site.

About the Author

Sri Ravipati is Web producer for THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at [email protected].

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