Professor Peter Cobb Wins Faculty of Arts KE Award
September, 2026
Congratulations to Professor Peter Cobb of the School of Humanities, who has received the Faculty of Arts Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award 2026 for the project “Understanding Our Shared Human Past through Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Public Outreach by HKU’s Archaeological Expedition to Armenia
Innovating Archaeology: HKU Scholars Utilise Immersive 3D Tech to Document and Study the Human Past
November 21
By wearing Mixed and Augmented Reality (MR/AR) headsets while actively digging, the HKU team is pioneering the interactive application of digital 3D scientific data at archaeological sites.
New Volume on XR in the Humanities
June 1, 2024
Lab director Tim Gruenewald's chapter about designing a virtual field trip course is published in a new volume called Past and Future Presence: Approaches for Implementing XR Technology in the Humanities.
New Book: In the Land of the Unreal
March 8, 2024
Check out the new book from our Senior Research Affiliate Lisa Messeri: In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles (Duke University Press).