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UMKC professor expresses doubts about Facebook’s new virtual reality software

UMKC professor expresses doubts about Facebook’s new virtual reality software

Joeli Toscano
November 9, 2021

Sitting on your living room couch, you slip on a set of virtual reality goggles. In an instant, you’re transported to an office filled with your coworkers. This fully immersive virtual world is being created by Meta (previously Facebook), and UMKC computer science &...

Nine zoom screens with the five middle ones turned on to a body part with a head in the middle center, arm in the middle left and right screens, chest in the center frame, and a stomach in the bottom middle frame.

UMKC Theatre presents “Antigonick,” a retelling of an ancient classic

Joeli Toscano
March 1, 2021

Five different bodies converge on one screen sharing a head, two separate arms, a torso and a chest to form a digital Zoom beast. This is all par for the course for the play “Antigonick.” Using ingenious digital techniques from director Vanessa Severo and scenic designer...

UMKC student chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal posing in the volker campus student union.

UMKC students voice mixed opinions on shift to online-only classes

Kate Beilsmith
November 30, 2020

UMKC Chancellor Mauli Agrawal announced on Nov. 18 that most of the remaining in-person classes will move online for the rest of the semester. Clinicals, labs, and experiential classes will remain in-person, but all lecture-based courses will be taught virtually.  Not...

Front Entrance of UMKC Volker Campus

Online classes to remain as UMKC announces plans for spring semester

Connor Stewart
November 2, 2020

Students hoping for more in-person classes next semester will be disappointed. Along with the release of 2021 enrollment dates, UMKC announced the 2021 spring semester will look largely the same as the current fall session. “Spring 2021 semester will look similar to Fall...

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

Kate Beilsmith
October 20, 2020

Unwelcome guests entered a UMKC College Democrats Zoom meeting using racist and homophobic slurs as their names on Oct. 5. According to Charisma Sewell, the campus representative for the College Democrats who was present at the incident, the offenders were blasting music...

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