{"id":19,"date":"2025-10-31T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:47:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The IMPACT Cluster is the University of Calgary&#8217;s <strong>Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence for Real World Impact <\/strong>research cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in the Department of Computer Science, we host an integrated set of 6 research groups\/labs including faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate student researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"IMPACT Cluster 2025\" class=\"wp-image-39 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-1536x1003.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/impact-cluster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2026\/01\/impact_cluster_2025-2048x1337.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; 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