The Maryland Blended Reality Center (MBRC) is a multidisciplinary partnership that joins computing experts at the University of Maryland with medical professionals at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The center’s mission is to advance visual computing tools—many of them based in immersive technologies like virtual, augmented and mixed reality—that can be used for emergency medicine, health care and innovative educational and training modules. Launched in 2017, MBRC was initially funded by the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State. MBRC is also partnering with the federal government, other academic institutions and industry leaders to develop a variety of mixed reality applications.

Amitabh Varshney
Co-Director

Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

Barbara Brawn
Associate Director

Associate Director of the Maryland Blended Reality Center

Sarah Murthi
Co-Director

Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

Jonathan Heagerty
Researcher

Visual Computing Engineer

Eric Lee
Researcher

AR/VR Researcher

Sida Li
Researcher

AR/VR Researcher