A 3-D body scanner created by Virginia Tech students will
soon be a handful of gyms across Southwest Virginia – including McComas Hall on
campus – that will help track fitness and diet progress.
Caroline Pugh of Roanoke, Va., Louis Cirillo of
Breckenridge, Colo., and Nick Gagianas of McMurray, Pa. started VirtualU in
2012. The company quickly grew leading Pugh – who was majoring in business
information technology in the Pamplin College of Business -- and Cirillo – who
was majoring in computer engineering in the College of Engineering – to take
time off school to focus on VirtualU fulltime. Gagianas graduated with a degree
in marketing in 2012.