Imagine that you are walking inside the Roman Colosseum in AD 72 and can explore every brick of the structure that took nine years to build but still stands partly in the center of Rome.

You are not in Italy. Instead, you’re a student sitting in a classroom at the University of Miami School of Architecture wearing Oculus glasses. That is the type of experience that mixed reality (virtual reality and augmented reality) or the metaverse can offer and the type of work that the RAD Laboratory (Responsive Architecture + Design) of the School of Architecture has been using…