Gear

Gear

The SOJC provides gear and software so that students don’t have to purchase their own. Gear is available for checkout to all current SOJC students.

Equipment Checkout

Equipment Checkout

SOJC offers a variety of digital tools for short term checkout to all SOJC students, staff and faculty for use in producing their journalism projects.

How to Reserve Equipment

SOJC equipment requests can be submitted through Webcheckout: https://webcheckout.uoregon.edu

To request training or further assistance with SOJC equipment, fill out this form: https://tinyurl.com/SOJCXPCheckout

Types of Available Audio and Video Production Equipment

  • Audio Recorders
  • Microphones
  • Digital Cameras (point&shoots, DSLRs, and video cameras)
  • Smartphones
  • DSLR lenses
  • Video and Photo Lighting kits
  • Tripods and Monopods

Types of Available AR/VR and Gaming Production Equipment

  • Game Consoles
  • Games
  • VR Glasses
  • Analog (Boardgames) games

Equipment Checkout Policies

Patrons accept financial and legal responsibility when borrowing and using equipment from the School of Journalism & Communication. The individual on record as reserving the equipment is responsible for the timely return of any and all equipment and parts of equipment. Any damaged or missing equipment can result in the withholding of the grade for the course(s) in which the student is registered. There will also be a charge to that student’s account for the cost of repair or replacement of the damaged or missing item(s).

Production Gear

Types of Available Audio and Video Production Equipment

  • Audio Recorders
  • Microphones
  • Digital Cameras (point&shoots, DSLRs, and video cameras)
  • Smartphones
  • DSLR lenses
  • Video and Photo Lighting kits
  • Tripods and Monopods

How to Reserve Equipment

SOJC equipment requests can be submitted through WebCheckout at: https://webcheckout.uoregon.edu

Request equipment training here: https://tinyurl.com/SOJCXPCheckout

IML Gear

The Immersive Media Lab is the ideal room for using the SOJC’s virtual reality and augmented reality equipment.

In the IML there are three VR capable PC’s on mobile carts. These can be use in conjunction with the Oculus Rift S or HTC Vive headset for VR experiences or for programming and development. These can also be connected to one of the wall-mounted displays for group viewing and collaboration.

VR Equipment Available for Checkout:

  • Oculus Rift S
  • Oculus Quest
  • Oculus Go
  • HTC Vive Pro and tracker
  • Meta Quest 2
  • Cleanbox

There are also 360-degree camera available at the J Cage so you can take video and picture to turn into a VR experience.

You can find guides for all our VR headsets here.

If you would like to reserve the IML and checkout any of it’s gear fill out this form.

 

Types of Available AR/VR and Gaming Production Equipment

Game Consoles

Games

VR Glasses

Analog games (Board games)

How to Reserve Equipment

While UO classes are remote and/or hybrid, SOJC equipment requests can be submitted with this form:

VR Equipment and Facility Consultation Form: https://tinyurl.com/SOJCVRCheckout

Livestream/Video Conferencing Options

This page is currently under development.

Please contact matts@uoregon.edu if you have questions or concerns.

Virtual Storage

Any student enrolled in a Journalism class has access to the SOJC’s virtual storage server. This server can be access from any of the lab computers and also accessed from a student’s personal device like a laptop or desktop computer.

To access the server from the lab computer, navigate to sojc-files folder in the explorer and then to the Classes folder within.

To access the server from a personal laptop or desktop computer, you will need to first download Cisco AnyConnect Secure Client. Once installed please refer to this Service Portal article on the process to connect to the VPN. Put \\sojc-files.uoregon.edu into the file search bar, it will ask for your DuckID and password, then you should be able to access the Classes folder.

Please contact matts@uoregon.edu if you have questions or concerns.

Print and Video Guides

This page is currently under development.

Please contact lucascd@uoregon.edu if you have questions or concerns.