VADIS VR: Yale Innovation Prize Recipient

VADIS VR was founded by Amy Giuliano, a recent Yale graduate credentialed in Art History and trained in virtual reality technologies at Yale's Center for Collaborative Arts & Media. A dual citizen of the United States and Italy, Amy earned degrees in Philosophy from France and Theology from the Angelicum in Rome while also working as an art historical guide. Upon her return to the States, Amy's work as a professor at Sacred Heart University prompted her to seek ways to provide her U.S.-based students with transformative access to historic, religious & artistic sites abroad to those who may otherwise never explore it. Ever since Amy began creating these virtual tours and using them in her own classroom, she has dedicated her time to building a virtual tour inventory covering sites in Rome, Jerusalem, and beyond. This inventory includes sites from the following periods: Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. It is available to educational and religious groups for didactic and catechetical purposes. VADIS VR was awarded the TSAI Center for Innovation Prize with funding at Yale in 2018.