– 14 May 2025 – Launching Preview Ceremony of “Virtual Reality: The ‘Ten Courts of Hell’ of Tiger Balm Garden” Exhibition in Haw Par Mansion
– 10 Jan 2025 – The number of visitors, including students, academia, industry practitioners, government officials and overseas delegates, visiting the Virtual Reality Centre has reached a total of 10,000 people, since 2015.
– 7-8 Nov 2024 – Received the Global Awards for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases at UNESCO Global Award Ceremony in the World Heritage Creative x Innovator Forum in Hangzhou
– Oct 2024 – VRC’s project – “Metaverse4ALL: Problem-based Collaborative Learning via Metaverse for Higher Education Disciplines” is shortlisted for the Immersive Experiential Learning Award at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2024
– Aug 2024 – VRC released NSWD 2024 AR Mobile App with AR Campus Hunt feature for New Student Orientation
– Dec 2023 – VRC is invited to conduct a project “A Metaverse System for Enhancing Interactivity, Enthusiasm and Collaborative Learning on Fine Art Logistics and Heritage Preservation” from Aw Boon Haw Foundation with a support of HK$3m
– 21 Sep 2023 – Launching of Cross-Institutional Metaverse Platform for Collaborative Learning
– 6 Oct 2021 – Release of Promotion video for the 5th Anniversary of the Virtual Reality Centre (VRC)
– 3 June 2020 – HSUHK VRC and SCM have successfully received a funding of HK$8m from the Education Bureau for the project “Development of Real-time Cooperative VR multi-CAVE systems for collaborative and team learning”. It is a joint project with HKU SPACE and Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong.
– 7 May 2020 – Global Leader Finalist Award, EdTech Awards 2020
– 5 Nov 2019 – EduTech Asia Awards – Best Use of Emerging Technology
– 29 Apr 2019 – EdTech Leadership Award Finalist 2019
– 31 December 2018 – Visitors/Guests experience VRC facilities and students using VR exceed 2500
– 17 Mar 2017 – Launching ceremony of three research centres of HSMC
– 6 Oct 2016 – Opening Ceremony of VRBD
– 28 Apr 2016 – First Trial of VR CAVE system on teaching
– 30 Aug 2015 – HSUHK successfully received a funding of HK$2m from the Education Bureau for a project “The development of an education and research center with automatic virtual reality platform for 3D interactive learning and big data analytics”