VR Lab’s FAA Research Giving Students Vast ExperiencesInside a computer lab at The University of Texas at Dallas, Chris Gauthier BA’23 fits a black device on his head with a gray tinted visor that shields his eyes like oversized sunglasses. Gauthier, a master’s degree candidate in game development at UT Dallas, is wearing a Microsoft HoloLens 2 virtual reality (VR) headset. Subscribe to UT Dallas Today Get the latest news and events delivered to your inbox. “We’re testing augmented reality and VR headsets for wear and accessibility,” said Price, who is the principal investigator on the FAA project. She developed the research protocol for the FAA project after spending months researching prior studies and carefully planned the experiments with the headsets.