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There wasn't much of an ecosystem around the software at that point, but it was it was growing. But what we did is we kept exploring, we kept looking for the lower cost entry points into vr. They had their own HVAC system cooling the room and cooling those computers and again felt like, you know, a little bit unapproachable. We were a little deflated because we left that realizing that each one of those headsets we put on were connected to a three thousand dollar gaming computer, gaming computers in the ceiling. We were building out a model lab, but we didn't have the technology at South Dakota state at at the time. We we had a cadaver program and we're building a brand new lab.

You know, we were thinking about it from the anatomy perspective at that point it but we were building a cadaver program. You know, we walked in, me and some of the fellow staff at South Dakota state walked into that VR anatomy experience and we're able to to kind of do that magic school bus experience of through a beating heart and we really knew that. But we were really inspired by that experience.

South dakostate university pretty low price point, tuition Um really, you know, an approachable land grant undergraduate experience, and so we just didn't have the ability to be in that VR space. was really intrigued by it, but historically we had just kind of been priced out of the market. I had, you know, very limited experience with VR. They have a hundred VR headsets hanging from the ceiling. and and how our trajectory kind of happened here? I'm a Colorado State University Grad, got my PhD from there, and South Dakota State University happen to be playing them in our homework in our in our first football game of the year, we were out in Fort Collins and southcore state had just started to open up a brand new three quarter million dollar human anatomy lab and Colorado State had a sixty million dollar anatomy building, and so we were there just learning about what was happening at Colorado state and they have an entire floor in that building that was dedicated to Vr. XR has chosen ten universities to build out twin digital replicas of their campus. And then essentially they have chosen victory. They have a partnership directly with Meta.

And so victory xr has been in the VR space and the Ad Tech Space for for quite a while. To kick us off, can you give us a high level overview on your partnership with Meta and the metaversity version of South Dakota state you're building? So our partnership really is with Victory Xr, which is an educational technology company out of Davenport, Iowa, and that partnership really started after a lot of exploration on our end. And the university continues to go deeper and deeper into the digital world to Greg it. And in my role as Associate Dean I serve the College of Natural Sciences, which includes biology, microbiology, chemistry, Biochemistry, geography and Physics, and I also teach in the biology department, do research really focused on inventions supporting student success and I coordinate a master's program and accelerated Master's program and human biology for students who are intending to apply to and get accepted into medical school. We have about twelve thousand students on our campus throughout our undergraduate graduate programs and and as a land grant, have a strong history and egg and engineering, but also have really strong programs in pharmacy, nursing, education, arts and sciences as well. We're in Brookings, which is a community of about twenty five thousand. But before we dig in, can you do the listeners a little background on both South Dakota State University and your role there? Yes, South Dakota State University is a mid sized public land grant on the eastern side of the State of South Dakota. We're excited to have you and talk with you today about your steps towards building a metaversity at South Dakota state. I'm Eric Olsen with Helix Education and we're here today with Dr Greg Heiberger, Associate Dean of academics and Student Success at South Dakota State University. Welcome back to enrollment growth university, a proud member of the connect e D U podcast network. Whether you're looking for fresh enrollment growth techniques and strategies or tools and resources, you've come to the right place.

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