NYU Tandon takes accepted students on virtual reality trip to Mars

If ever there was a way to get young engineers interested in your school...


With high school students applying to more and more colleges, schools are having to expend more effort in getting kids to choose their institution come decision day.

So NYU Tandon School of Engineering decided to do something legitimately cool this year: They’re sending admitted students a low-tech virtual reality device they’re calling Tandon Vision and instructions to download a virtual reality tour of Mars created by Tandon undergrad Matthew Conto.

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