Academics presented on university projects at a networking event organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Internet House

May 30, 2015
Rosana Fernández, coordinator of the pre-incubator at the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), and Assistant Professor Victor Paulos, academic secretary of the School of Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, spoke about the university’s initiative to develop massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the Oculus-Dino Systems Engineering capstone project at a networking event organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Internet House.

The event took place on May 28, 2015, at the organization’s headquarters in Montevideo, to mark its third anniversary and “Internet Day.”

Oculus-Dino takes you on a virtual tour of the Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

The goal is to use virtual reality technology (Oculus Rift) as a teaching tool, transporting users back to that era so they can understand how dinosaurs lived and what characteristics they had.

The development team consisted of five systems engineering students: Agustín Boba, Guillermo Giovine, Gonzalo Lema, Carolina Martinote, and Virginia Morrone, who carried out this project as part of their senior thesis work.

La Casa de Internet is an organization that brings together Internet entities in the region; it was created to facilitate communication among them and provide better services to their community.