Immersive Spatial Technologies and Realities Laboratories (ISTaR Labs) is the immersive technology research group of the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies at the University of the Philippines Open University. We work where immersive communication systems, instructional communication, and human–computer interaction meet, building and testing extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications that make learning richer and more reachable at a distance.
| Research group | Immersive Spatial Technologies and Realities Labs (ISTaR Labs) |
| Flagship program | Immersive Open Pedagogies (IOP), running since 2023 |
| Host unit | Faculty of Information and Communications Studies (FICS), UP Open University |
| Where we are | Los Baños (HQ) and UP Diliman, with affiliate researchers at UP Cebu and UP Mindanao |
| Focus | Extended reality, immersive learning, spatial computing, science communication |