Dr. Ross Kauffman, an assistant professor of public health at Bluffton University, will introduce virtual reality to participants in an Oct. 30 campus colloquium. His presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

Kauffman will first provide an overview of the technology’s history and describe his summer 2015 efforts to create virtual worlds, funded by a grant from the Bluffton University Research Center.

Audience volunteers will then be invited to experience demonstrations that illustrate how virtual reality may be applied to teaching and research. “Together, we will shrink to the size of atoms, launch into orbit with the astronauts of Apollo 11, see an impressionist painting from the inside and diffuse bombs,” all without leaving the room, he says