Through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Adesola Akinleye (assistant professor in TWU's Division of Dance) is developing choreography and performance pieces for Space+Dance+Digital, or S+D2, an augmented reality system being created by Talis Reks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Immersion Lab

The choreography and movements are digitized using motion capture, in which a performer is recorded while wearing reflective markers. Those markers allow computers to create animated characters in movies or video games, or in this case to capture a dancer's movement.

There is no timetable for S+D2's release, but Akinleye is hoping for some time in 2025.