Brooklyn’s role as tech powerhouse surges with coming of virtual reality lab
Unreal: VR/AR growing ‘at breakneck speed’
Another step in Brooklyn’s evolution as a tech powerhouse comes with the announcement that the borough will soon be home to the country’s first ever publicly funded virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) facility.
The city recently announced the selection of New York University Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University) to develop and operate a hub for VR/AR at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with a workforce development center at CUNY Lehman College in the Bronx. It is expected to open late in 2017.
VR and AR are hot and getting hotter. The city says the new lab will directly create more than 500 jobs over the next 10 years, and “further position New York City as a global leader in the VR/AR industry.”