RISD students create VR experience to walk, bike across Newport bridge - WPRI.com

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students person turned blueprints of futuristic versions of the Newport Pell Bridge into virtual world experiences.

The Newport Bridge is 2.1 miles agelong and spans crossed the Narragansett Bay connecting Newport to Jamestown.

This weekend, radical tin spell to the Old Colony House successful Washington Square successful Newport to virtually spell crossed the span by bike, walk, oregon adjacent participate a satellite of augmented world wherever the span pops up disconnected the array done a tablet.

Professor Liliane Wong said she was contacted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse successful 2020 to spot if her squad could make a virtual satellite to reimagine however the span could beryllium accessible successful the future.

“It’s the aforesaid region arsenic the magnitude of Central Park, truthful if we were to gully these successful drawings, the drawings would beryllium precise tiny successful bid to spot each of it, truthful portion the nonsubjective is to spot however we mightiness adhd to the bridge, the different nonsubjective was to fto everyone get successful connected however architectural drawings work,” Wong explained.

The squad took it a measurement further and adjacent mapped retired the venue for this weekend’s grounds arsenic well.

It’s escaped and unfastened to the nationalist but you’re advised to sign up for a timed introduction online.

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