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Extended Reality (XR) is a simple term used to describe emerging technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). This site contains a curated compilation of resources designed to help you understand these advancing technologies. 

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In VR, the user can feel like they are present in a digitally created space. The brain treats the VR experience as a real experience and the viewer feels the sensation of "being there" (Bailenson, 2018). It's not suprising that workforce training is an area of early adoption for VR given that experience is the number one affordance of VR. Experiences that can be leveraged across an organization by many people or experiences that are dangerous, too costly, or not possible in real life are good use cases for VR. 

VR applications range from being non-immersive (viewed with a computer or mobile device) to fully immersive (viewed with a Head-Mounted Display, or HMD). Recent interest in VR is attributed to mass mobile technology production that advanced the component technology behind XR and reduced the cost of access to XR experiences (Bailenson, 2018). Watch the short video clip below to get a sense of how VR is being used in teaching and learning as an alternate to real-time, 2D Webinar classes. Stanford VR Researcher, Jeremy Bailenon, talks about a course on the topic of VR that is also taught inside a VR platform.

Bailenson, J. (2021, November 5). Stanford "Virtual People" class in the Metaverse. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLI_OIV3nc

AR applications ‘add-on’ to a user’s physical world to enhance it digitally. In a teaching and learning context, imagine engineering students using their mobile device to display text and visual overlays while performing electrical procedure training in the lab. An AR activity like this was explored as a solution to alleviate over-populated labs while helping students master specific competencies and proficiency (Martín-Gutiérrez et al., 2015).  AR experiences are called assisted reality or mixed reality depending on whether the user feels like the digital enhancement is overlaid onto, or integrated withln their physical environment, as described in Fig. 1 below (Rauschnabel et al., 2022). MR is considered a complex form of AR and often associated with the Microsoft HoloLens device. 

The University of Maryland has a terrific resource on  Augmented Reality in Education: Interactive Classrooms

(Rauschnabel et al., 2022)

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Emergence of XR in the Workplace

The list below provides a breadth of use cases for immersive technology that are emerging in Industry.  To learn more about Industry Verticals, visit the VR/AR Association . To access an online directory of XR focused companies, vist the XR EcoMap .

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• Product Development: Working in Distributed Teams ( Balzerkiewitz & Stechert, 2020 )
• Product Design and Virtual Prototyping ( Berni & Borgianni, 2020 )
• Automobile: Virtual Reality in Car Design at Ford  (Lassa, 2020)
• VR Industrial Environments for Industry 4.0 ( Liagkou, Salmas, & Stylios, 2019 )
• Information Architecture Design: Collaboration ( Narasimha, Dixon, Bertrand, & Chalil Madathil, 2019 )
• Engineering Design Reviews ( Wolfartsberger, 2019 )
• Ergonomic Design for Workstations ( Nguyen et al., 2017 )
• Safety training ( Colombo & Golzio, 2016 )
• Travel and Tourism ( Loureiro, Guerreiro, & Ali, 2020 ) ( Gibson & O’Rawe, 2018 )
• Human-Robotic Interaction, HRI ( Matsas, Vosniakos, & Batras, 2018 ) 
• Sustainable Landscape Design ( Atwa et al., 2019 )
• Workplace Empathy Training: Racism and Inequity ( Roswell et al., 2020 )
• Medicine: Surgical Training ( Maresky et al., 2019 ), ( Slater & Sanchez-Vives, 2016 )
• Rehabilitation: Prosthetics and upper-limb rehabilitation ( Nissler et al., 2019 )
• Mental Health: Exposure Therapy ( Lindner et al., 2019 )
• Clinical Medicine: Pain Management ( Li et al., 2017 )
• Residential Senior Care ( Baker et al., 2020 )
• IKONA Health Learning Hub 2.0
• Storytelling and Journalism  (Kukkakorpi & Pantti, 2020) 
• Online Shopping and Consumer Behaviour ( Meißner, Pfeiffer, Peukert, Dietrich, & Pfeiffer, 2020 )  
• Cultural Heritage and Museum Tours ( Bekele, Pierdicca, Frontoni, Malinverni, & Gain, 2018 )
• Indigenous Storytelling ( Ross & Wallis, 2020 )
• Live Performance and Theatre ( Martir, 2020 )
• VR as a Research Tool: Experimental and Observational Research, and Data Collection on Consumer Behaviour ( Xu, Demir-Kaymaz, Hartmann, Menozzi, & Siegrist, 2021 )

“XR is an effective technology for active and experiential learning, enabling users to gain concrete experience that might not otherwise be available. By providing “hands on” experience, XR helps promote student engagement with learning materials and deepens student interaction with complex problems.” Pomerantz & Rode (2020)

The potential of XR as a learning tool is gaining interest from researchers across the disciplines. The examples below show a breadth of XR use cases for teaching and learning.  

• Educators in VR has created a Zotero  EDVR XR Research Library  collection with hundreds of articles.
• The University of Rochester  Studio X Immersive Technologies Resources Library  also has a great collection of articles by subject.

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• Augmented and Virtual Reality for Earth Science Education
• Augmented and Virtual Reality Resource Infrastructure for Civil Engineering Courses ( Jang, S., et al., 2022 )

Impact of virtual reality use on the teaching and learning of vectors ( Campos, E., Hidrogo, I., & Zavala, G., 2022 )

• York University:  Indigenous Metaverse Receives Funding to Create Experiential Education
• Experiential Learning for Global Health Training ( Shakarishvili, 2019 )  
• Experiential Learning ( Kwon, 2018)
• Earth Science Field Trips ( Klippel et al., 2019 )
• Improving Conceptual Understanding in Science ( Yoon, Anderson, Lin, & Elinich , 2017)
• Collaboration and Problem Solving ( Abdullah, Mohd-Isa, & Samsudin, 2019 )
• Cardiac Anatomy ( Maresky et al., 2019 ).
• Language Acquisition ( Parmaxi, 2020 ) 
• Engagement Strategies in Geography ( Detyna & Kadiri, 2020 )
• Spatial Mathematical Skills ( Herrera, Pérez, & Ordóñez, 2019 )
• Production Engineering ( Anjos, Rocha, Silva, & Pacheco, 2020 )
• Chemical Incident Response Procedure Training ( Subin et al., 2019 )
• Virtual Biology Labs: ASU Online biology course is first of offer virtual-reality lab in Google partnership  (Faller, 2018)
• Biology Microscope Experiments  (Zhou, Tang, Lin, & Han, 2020)
• Engineering Lab Safety Training ( Martín-Gutiérrez, Fabiani, Benesova, Meneses, & Mora, 2015 )
• Difficult, Impossible, or Dangerous Situations: CBC: Virtual Reality technology lets U of S engineering students try and fail  (Kerslake, 2019)
• Development, Collaboration, and Presentation in Architecture Projects ( Hui, Estrina, Zhou, Lee, & Kinuthia, 2020 ).
• Immersive Journalism as Storytelling: Ethics, Production, and Design  (Uskali, Gynnild, Jones, & Sirkkunen, 2021 )

See XR Additional Reading by Topic Area for more.

Consider the variety of ways below that you can introduce students to immersive technology (both as creators or consumers of the technologies). 360 VR, Social VR platforms, Open Content for XR, AR and VR development tools, and Custom Simulations/Games are all part of the growing ecosystem of types of immersive experiences that are emerging across the disciplines. Picking the right experience for your students will depend on your goals, learning outcomes, audience, and either your comfort level with the new technology or your need for custom support. 

• Wavemakers  is a Work-Integrated Learning Program focused on introducing students to immersive technologies. This innovative program offers a virtual reality campus where students will meet and interact with other students, and mentors, participate in expert sessions and even attend a virtual career fair with 40+ employers. 
• Metaverse 2030: Experiencing SDGs in virtual reality  is a UN sponsored contest to help students gain in demand, immersive skills while raising awareness about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).   

ISTE  23 Resources for Bringing AR and VR to the Classroom

• Github AR/VR Development Guide
• Metaverse Architecture Awards + Design Awards

With 360°VR, a user can navigate up, down, and around in a full circle, allowing them to feel immersed in the environment of the photograph or video. 360VR is a good starting point for showing students immersive technology since there are easy to use creation tools and free content sources. Future students can explore photospheres to tour  University of Waterloo Campus . The Chemical Engineering (ChE)  360° Interactive 3D VR Distillation Laboratory  is an example of a desktop, 360 VR tour (connected photospheres). It is an experience that is designed to prepare students for their inperson, safety training.

Across the disciplines, 360°video can be used for observational, reflective or interactive learning, to illustrate theory and practice to increase learning motivation or for immersive learning experiences (Rosendahl and Wagner, 2023).

• 360° Cities  is the World's largest 360° collection of stock images and videos.
• National Geographic 360°VR Videos
• NASA 360° Videos
• Carleton University Pedagogies & VR, VR in Education (Guide for 360VR Field Trips)
• The New York Times Virtual Reality Curriculum Guide: Experience, Immersion and Excursion in the Classroom
• 360° Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Immersive Video Storytelling – Open Textbook
• McGill 360°VR Libray Guide 
• Modalities of VR: From 360° images to 3D worlds
• Go-to Resources for Virtual Reality and 360 Degree Content  

Social VR platforms enable students and instructors to collaborate in 3D with a desktop or with a VR headset in real-time. Social VR has the potential to break down physcial distance by offering users the perception of more digital presence than a 2D, flat screen, Webinar might, for example. The potential for Social VR is a wide open area of research for teaching and learning and is also rapidly advancing in the business sector. Educators are starting to see how Social VR may impact future professions. For example,  uOttawa's Faculty of Law takes moot trials to the metaverse , is an example of how a discpline is examing future impacts of the technology through experiencing it firsthand.

The platforms below offer tools to build classrooms or provide prebuilt social experiences. 

• XR Collaboration (XRC) Resource Guide  is a central repository of detailed information about XR collaboration products and platforms.
• Metaversed Consulting: The Metaverse Directory: Virtual Worlds from A to Z
• Best VR Collaboration in 2021: Compare Reviews on 40+ | G2
• Toolkit: Learning in Virtual Spaces
• Meta Horizon
• Virbela  (Virtual Environment)
• Mondly  (Language Learning)

Virtual World Building Tools

• Mozilla Hubs
• OnCyber  (Gallery Builder)
• Explorations in VR for HigherEd
• Search sites like  Smithsonian ,  360Cities , and  Google Arts and Culture  to access XR content that can be viewed on various devices e.g. desktop, mobile, or with an immersive HMD viewer.
• PennState IMEX Lab Experience Catalogue
• VR Focus:  40+ Resources For Bringing AR/VR To The Classroom
• University of Toronto,  Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Virtual Field Trips and General VR Content Apps
• Experience 3D & Augmented Reality in Search (Mobile Only)
• Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab:  Educational VR Applications Database
• VictoryXR and HTC VIVE VR Products
• Teaching Physics Using Virtual Reality
• moleculARweb
• Sketchfab Royalty Free
• Smithsonian Open Access Highlights
• MorphoSource

XR creation tools enable instructors and students to create immersive experiences. 

• Indigenous VR Starter Kit   A practical guide for low resource communities to start VR development.
• ISTE Blog: Jamie Donally
• Inclusive Apps with WebXR & AI
• WebXR Lessons
• Immersive-web  WebXR
• Glitch’s WebVR builder,  A-Frame
• Thinglink Education
• Microsoft:  Get Started with Mixed Reality
• Unity Teach
• Circuit Stream’s  XR Development With Unity  course
• Udemy.com: Intro to Game Development Using Unity Part 1
• UnReal Online Learning
• Nividia Omniverse
• University of Toronto Research Guide, Virtual Reality @ Gerstein + MADLab: Create VR Content
• How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide (substack.com)
• Generative AI MegaList 2023 - Google Drive
• There's An AI For That - Find AI Tools Using AI (theresanaiforthat.com)
• 1000+ AI tools  AIcyclopedia | The largest AI encyclopedia
• The Generative AI Canon - by Jon Radoff (substack.com)

Simulations  

• Games Institute G.I.   is a uWaterloo research centre that creates custom VR simulations.
• Check out this industry guide for an overview on creating scenario based learning with VR from Talespin: Level up Your Scenario-based Learning with VR

360 Virtual Tours

• The Centre for Extended Learning (C.E.L.) and Map Analysis and Design (M.A.D.) have created 360VR expereiences for on-campus courses. Example:  Using 360 Virtual Reality to Make Experiential Learning Accessible to All   (Long, Dabrowski, & Grant, 2019).
• Carelton University  Teaching with Augmented and Virtual Reality  
• Carelton Univeristy  Augmented and Virtual Reality for Earth Science Education
• Coursera Online Course:  University of Michigan, Michael Nebeling, Extended Reality for Everybody Specialization
• Global Resource Guide to XR Collaboration
• Online News Association:  A Guide to AR/XR in Journalism
• Online News Association:  A Guide to Photogrammetry Photography

News and resources, focusing on apps and research-backed effective uses of virtual reality in the classroom.

Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education

Akcayir, G., & Demmans Epp, C. (Eds.). (2021).  Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education . IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-5043-4

Virtual Reality in Education: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (2 Volumes)

Management Association, I. (Ed.). (2019).  Virtual Reality in Education: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice . IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-8179-6

• Virtual Reality in Curriculum and Pedagogy  Evidence from Secondary Classrooms, Erica Southgate
• Top 10 Voices of VR Episodes to Get Started into VR
• Broad Recommendations for Advancing XR Capability in Higher Education

Existing user-centred design guidelines, emerging XR guidelines, and industry knowledge bases are good starting points for designing your specific experience. Guidance provided by aforementioned sources can be adjusted for the new abilities and requirements of XR experiences.

As with 2D experiences, best practice for 3D XR experiences is to proactively design with accessibility in mind. Accessibility challenges exist in 3D spaces.  

• W3C: Understanding XR and Accessibility Challenges
• W3C: XR Accessibility User Requirements
• XRA’S DEVELOPERS GUIDE, CHAPTER THREE: Accessibility & Inclusive Design in Immersive Experiences
• XR Access: Youtube
• Berkeley University of California: XR Accessibility Universal Design for Learning
• BBC Accessibility for Products XR Barriers Research
• PEAT Inclusive XR & Hybrid Work TOOLKIT
• University of Melbourne: Accessibility of Virtual Reality Environments
• Frontiers: Accessibility Guidelines for VR Games - A Comparison and Synthesis of a Comprehensive Set
• American Foundation for the Blind  Exploring Methods of Accessing Virtual Worlds
• Unity Asset Store Accessibility Plugin
• User Experience Design for Learning (UXDL)
• Nielsen Norman Group  10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Virtual Reality
• Game accessibility guidelines | A straightforward reference for inclusive game design  ​
• eBook  Immersive Education: Designing for Learning | SpringerLink  (University of Waterloo Library access required)
• UX for XR Toolkit
• iLRN Design Standards for Immersive Learning Environments
• QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx)

“Relational Presence”: Designing VR-Based Virtual Learning Environments for Oral History-Based Restorative Pedagogy

Immersive Pedagogy: Developing a Decolonial and Collaborative Framework for Teaching and Learning in 3D/VR/AR

Blending Disciplines for a Blended Reality: Virtual Guides for a Living History Museum

• A Framework for Choosing, Using, and Designing XR Applications for Post-pandemic Learning
• Immersive Learning Experience Design (IXLD) Elements - An Engaged Learning Technologies White Paper on Designing Intelligent Immersive Learning for Professional and Higher Education
• Medium: Eve Weston, The Taxonomy of Experience: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3
• UX Guidelines for Extended Reality Applications on HMD

VR Comfort Settings Checklist & Glossary for Developers & Players (roadtovr.com)

• Locomotion Vault  locomotion methods for VR content
• S3DIT University of Potsdam techniques for hand interactions with objects
• Press VR Project l How to build a UX Design Immersive
• Organize the Spatial Environment to Maximize Efficiency
• Create Flexible Interactions and Environments
• Prioritize User’s Comfort
• Keep It Simple: Do Not Overwhelm the User
• Design Around Hardware Capabilities and Limitations
• Use Cues to Help Users Throughout Their Experience
• Create a Compelling XR Experience
• Build upon Real World Knowledge
• Provide Feedback and Consistency
• Allow Users to Feel in Control of the Experience
• Allow for Trial and Error  

(Vi, S. et al, 2019)

• Augmented Reality IOS Human Interface Guidelines
• Google Augmented Reality Design Guidelines
• Adobe:  Virtual Reality (VR) Design & User Experience
• Medium:  UX + VR: 14 Guidelines for Creating Great First Experiences
• UX Planet:  Designing User Experience for Virtual Reality (VR) applications
• Meta:  A blueprint for designing inclusive AR/VR experiences
• Controls and Interactions
• Movement and Locomotion
• Captions and Subtitling
• LeapMotion: VR Design Best Practices

The uWaterloo Extended Reality AR/VR Community of Practice   explores XR topics through termly events and a Teams channel for sharing XR news and events of interest. Suggest future topics or request to join the UW AR/VR group by contacting  Gillian Dabrowski  (CEL),  Mark Morton  (CTE), or Lynn Long co-facilitators of the group.  

Previous University of Waterloo XR AR/VR Community of Practice Events

• Immersive Platforms and Tools: Open Education Week 2023 , March 6, 2023 (includes emerging generative AI tools)
• XR Accessibility , October 26, 2022 
• iLRN Presentation: ( Dabrowski, 2022 )
• Dr. Stéphane Bouchard:  Using virtual reality in psychotherapy: Where are we and what’s next? ,  March 31, 2022 Recording
• Rob Theriault:  Waterloo Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Community of Practice: An overview of XR initiatives at Georgian College (CTE 7511), August 20, 2021 Recording
• Lynn Long:   The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on XR as a Learning Technology (CTE 7511) ,   July 29, 2021 PDF Slides Includes XR Tool Selection: A Practical Guide for Instructors 
• Mark Morton:  Using XR for Empathy Training (CTE7511) ,  June 25, 2021
• Gillian Dabrowski:  An Introduction to Extended Reality: What It is and How It Can Help Your Students Learn (CTE7541), March 9, 2021 Recording
• Unity Higher Ed XR Innovation Grant  
• Unity Academic Resources
• Meta Immersive Learning
• Unreal Engine Epic MegaGrants
• HP Funding for Innovation Through Immersive Learning
• Engage XR partners with Victory XR to launch 10 Meta funded Metaversities
• New funding for immersive technologies makes virtual a reality at UBCO
• Georgian receives $955,200 from the Future Skills Centre to support bold digital innovation strategy
• eCampus Ontario Virtual Learning Strategy
• Building tomorrow’s metaverse – Canada Media Fund

  AR/VR News and Organizations

• VR/AR Association VRVA
• Educators in VR  
• Virtual Reality Society
• Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)   
• Extended Reality for Education and Research in Academia

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XR Activities at the University of Waterloo

 The cross-disciplinary list below shows where XR research and exploration is happening at the University of Waterloo.

University of Waterloo Virtual Reality Club, UWVR Club

• Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business: Virtual Workplace Facilitation Tool
• Environment Computing | Mapping, Analysis & Design (MAD)
• Ecology Lab – Spongy Bog Field Trip
• Learning about Ontario’s Paleozoic geology with Virtual Reality Google Expedition Tours
• Using the new 3D digital model of Ontario's Paleozoic geology to bridge gaps in the traditional education framework
• Haptic Computing Lab
• Intelligent Technologies for Wellness and Independent Living  (ITWIL) Lab
• Kinesiology
• Multisensory Brain and Cognition  (MBC) Lab
• School of Optometry
• School of Computer Science:These University of Waterloo professors are helping build the metaverse
• Stratford  Lennart Nacke: Entering the metaverse: Investigating social virtual reality platforms and experiences 
• Systems Design Engineering
• The Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation  (DOHR) 
• Research Talks: A new reality: Exploring dimensions of immersive learning
• Urban Realities Laboratory

Challenges  

XR is often refered to as part of the next computing platform but there are barriers to mainstream XR use. Many of the challenges are repeats of 2D technology that persist in the 3D environment (e.g. accessibility, scalability). Infrastructure, workforce training, complementary technologies, and policy and standards need to be established. More efficacy research is needed. More content is needed. Resources below provide more information on XR challenges.

One of the biggest challenges with XR is that the technology is here before the policy around its use. This particular challenge is a good reason to invest time with students into learning about the potential future impacts of these technologies.  

• XR MUST Editorial: why should we talk about ethics in VR?
• Ethical Framework for XR, Anna Valeri
• XR Ethics: Invitation to Participate in IEEE's Global Initiative on Ethics of Extended Reality
• The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Extended Reality
• XRSI  Metaverse Safety Week
• XRSI Building Responsible, Safe, and Inclusive Extended Reality Ecosystems (The Metaverse) Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration
• What Meta Says About Camera Privacy on Oculus Quest & Quest Pro (roadtovr.com)

Cybersickness is something that 8-10% of users may experience with HMD, VR headsets. Cybersickness is a good reason to stay with desktop VR in your experiments or pilots or have a plan to provide an alternate format for people who may experience cybersickness. There is active research on cybersickness happening to investigate how to mitigate the uncomfortable feeling that might result from a mismatch of the perception of movement that is created, digitally, from what is actually, physically happening. More is being discovered about how to design experiences to avoid sparking cybersickness in users. 

• Virtual reality motion sickness may be predicted and counteracted
• Seamas Weech, PhD Recent Publications on Cybersickenss
• Avoid a sense of movement that doesn’t match user movement  
• Keep camera in full control of the user at all times
• Reduce amount of peripheral vision during movement 
• Give user a frame of reference (such as a desk or cockpit) 
• Maintain a constant horizon 
• Avoid objects quickly moving 
• Avoid acceleration/deceleration 
• Maintain constantly high framerate and low latency 
• Avoid blur in peripheral vision 
• Avoid requirement for fast head movement 

Interoperability is starting to be a focus in the XR industry. Organizations are working together to ensure there is cross vendor cross platform interoperability.

• The Khronos Group
• The Metaverse Standards Forum
• OMA3  
• Microsoft and Meta partner to deliver immersive experiences for the future of work and play
• Wolvic (WebXR Browser)

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Chemical Engineering Virtual Labs

Distillation laboratory.

This website is designed to support engineering students for deep laboratory learning of chemical engineering concepts by integrating an interactive 360° virtual reality (VR) tour of a modern pilot distillation plant with high-fidelity process simulation and multimedia.

Waterloo Panorama Virtual Tour

WATERLOO, Belgium — This 360° panorama captures the entire painting inside the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo.

The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo is housed in its own purpose-built building next to the Lion’s Mound (Butte du Lion) at the battlefield.

On the inside walls of the cylindrical building is a massive 360-degree canvas painted by Louis Dumoulin in 1912. It was commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the battle. The painting measures 361 feet (110m) around and nearly 40 feet (12 m) high. To view it, you walk up some steps to a large raised dais area that provides a panoramic view of the painting.

At the base of the painting are sections of life-size diorama depicting gory details of the battlefield, mud, dead horses, and all. Sound effects evoke the noisy commotion of the day.

This 360° panorama captures the entire painting. Here’s a flat version:

Where Is It?

The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo is in its own round building as part of the Waterloo Battleground complex near Mont Saint-Jean on part of the original 1815 battleground .

I have more information and traditional photos of the building and exhibit here .

More to Explore

If you enjoyed this post, you might also find these of interest:

• Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo
• The Battlefield of Waterloo
• Napoleon’s Last Headquarters
• Defending Charleston Harbor
• Istanbul Naval Museum
• Bruges by Night

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