The remote national park in the middle of Lake Superior is only accessible by boat or seaplane. Unsurprisingly, it's the least visited national park in the lower 48 states, but visitors spend a long time on the island once they get there.
“I still had a flip phone; that’s how interested I was in a virtual reality,” said Kyle Ollah, who now offers virtual lessons to students in St. Louis, L.A. and Seattle.
A UMD professor and her students are in the process of programming "COVID gossip bots" to socialize with and monitor isolated residents of assisted living facilities.