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While these emerging technologies may offer many benefits for students and professors, institutions will need to address ethical and safety concerns. 
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"Virtual and augmented reality have become a trend more recently due to advances in artificial intelligence. They’ve grown to be more commonly utilized tools for interpretation of ideas in a variety of fields. VR is an immersive technology experience. Though it was commonly used in the gaming industry, it’s now being applied to a variety of fields. For example, companies can make use of simulated interviews and best choose candidates for the job when recruiting and training. AR on the other hand, supplements and enhances reality that already exists. Social media filters are a good example of this. Another example, the furniture company IKEA recently used this immersive technology to help shoppers envision how furniture would look inside their home." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Elaine Weseman's curator insight,
September 17, 2023 7:25 PM
VR and AR more and more are being applied to a variety of fields. More notably associated with gaming, VR and AR are proving useful in less glorified areas like job interviews and job training. In addition, it is enhancing the shopping experience, saving time and money. Lastly, in the area of art, it is being used to spice up exhibits giving patrons an alternative way of appreciating artwork. All in all, VR and AR are revolutionizing our world, pushing the boundaries of creativity and enhancing how people perceive it.
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For many of us, augmented reality is primarily associated with gaming and other forms of online entertainment. But it is also increasingly being used in scholarly publishing — in expected and unexpected ways. Springer Nature has been experimenting with this, and anyone who visited their booth at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) had the opportunity to experience the results firsthand. In this interview, their Senior Manager of Semantic Data, Markus Kaindl, and Head of Innovation, Martijn Roelandse, answer some of my questions about mixed realities, virtual reality, and augmented reality in scholarly publishing and tell us about some of their work in this area.
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Virtual reality has the ability to transport users to a whole new environment in a completely believable way. In the education sector, this offers almost endless possibilities – from engaging and interactive learning experiences to practical training simulations for students and teachers alike. We’ve been working with Ericsson and Connect to Learn to create a ‘virtual classroom’ that serves as a space for teachers to train before facing a real class, but what does the future hold for VR classrooms?
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"A couple of years ago I started up Virtual Reality Working Out Loud Week to promote real-world applications of virtual reality.
The inaugural #VRwolweek unearthed 20 real-world examples of the emerging technology, and the enduring popularity of that blog post tells me that we are hungry for more.
Loath to disappoint, I hereby present 25 more real-world examples of virtual reality, drawn from this year’s and last year’s events. I thank everyone who contributed to the following list." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Exciting new applications of virtual reality technology are helping scientists create powerfully precise, high-resolution visualizations of how particular life forms and other phenomena appear and behave.
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Now another ten years on VR seems to be making another surge into the mainstream consumer market and the field of education. Whether it’s here to stay or not largely depends on how accessible edtech companies can make this to mainstream teachers and classrooms around the world and the ability of edtech companies to provide experiences that have genuine educational outcomes that match the kind of investment that will be necessary to enable students to access those experiences. Via Nik Peachey
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 7, 2017 7:41 AM
Some free tools and resources to create virtual reality worlds and experiences. 
Richard Platt's curator insight,
December 10, 2017 1:22 AM
Now another ten years on VR seems to be making another surge into the mainstream consumer market and the field of education. Whether it’s here to stay or not largely depends on how accessible edtech companies can make this to mainstream teachers and classrooms around the world and the ability of edtech companies to provide experiences that have genuine educational outcomes that match the kind of investment that will be necessary to enable students to access those experiences.
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You can now use the Cardboard Camera app on iPhones and on Android phones. You can now share your virtual reality panoramas with others through email and social media. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to use the Cardboard Camera to capture and share virtual reality panoramas.
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Closing one’s eyes and seeing something that doesn’t exist in one’s current reality is a skill that many people throughout time have had to develop in their learning paths. Now, virtual reality is taking imagination a step further and allowing people to experience augmented situations in a very practical way.
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"Virtual Reality (VR) is changing the way people see the future. As with video games emerging into the classroom in the early 2000s, this new technology will soon be making its way into classrooms as well. Many teachers are receptive to working with this technology, but some of them are not quite aware of the effect VR can have on a classroom environment. It can change the way students learn in the long run." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Nando Castellanos's curator insight,
May 15, 2017 6:54 PM
Regarding the intention of this article, I would say that Virtual Reality can have very good contributions in the way students learn but it also brings some gaps. I believe that it is a fact that students can internalize better the concepts presented in lessons since, as mentiioned in this article, more than one sense is involved. Also, VR can raise students' motivation since we are in an era in which technology has taken part of people's lifes and some of them even become addicted to tech. In the other, I consider that VR makes that students have less interaction among them. It means that they would become independent but at the same time it would make them become more indifferent. In addition, VR could make that the teacher's role become less important. However, if teachers find the way of implementing appropriately this kind of technology in their classrooms, it would be a tool which can help the learning process to be more effective.
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
May 16, 2017 9:38 AM
Not a revolution but some evolution
Micah McTaggart's curator insight,
May 24, 2017 10:50 PM
I think this is a great new technology for the classroom, albeit an expensive one. if implemented properly, with a curriculum focus, VR has the potential to really engage students in subjects they might otherwise see as boring. Ancient History for example, students could be placed in the world of ancient Rome or Egypt by using VR, they could see it with their own eyes and ears instead of just hearing about it from a teacher. This has the potential to transform the learning experience b putting the student in control of how they view the environments around them.
VR is also very appealing to many young people and they would be more willing to engage in this form of learning, than say, listening to a lecture on ancient Rome. Students may not even realise they are learning at first, which is awesome as it encourages them to seek out new information without it feeling like a burden or boring.
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Students can use virtual reality goggles for views they normally wouldn’t get to see, and augmented reality can give them new experiences. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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As a growing number of medical schools bring virtual reality into the classroom, students are finding it an effective way to learn complex subject matter, such as anatomy, that’s often easier to understand with hands-on practice.
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Kathy Lynch's curator insight,
January 17, 2017 6:23 PM
Thx Jim. Lots of gret possibilities to explore for exploring!
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Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007), the postmodernist French philosopher and cultural theorist, examined the ways in which see and interact with the world as simulcra and simulations and hyperreality. Neo, in the film The Matrix (1999), carries a copy of Baudrillard's Simulcra and Simulations (1981), which examines technology, or more accurately its virtual outputs, in culture. More than this, he has created several concepts and theories that redefine what technology is in our lives and culture, way beyond face-to-face and print media.
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When it comes to locating educational content for a PC-powered VR headset like a Vive, Rift or WMR, it can be a little tricky for three main reasons:
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Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
May 13, 2018 5:15 AM
5 very good and common sense lessons about virtual reality !
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Some tech trends fizzle out and die a quiet death, while others are so significant that they transform our world and how we live in it. Here are the top nine tech mega-trends that I believe will define 2018 and beyond.
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Free PDF Download! Get our free eBook AR/VR Technology's Role In The Future Of eLearning to learn 7 steps to Develop AR/VR eLearning Resources.
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This morning I received an email from a reader who was wondering what the terms AR and VR mean. I get that question on a fairly regular basis these days. That's why earlier this year I recorded a video and posted a short slideshow that outlines the differences between augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.
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I was a skeptic, but I’m not anymore. I didn’t think there would be an easy and free way to build Virtual Reality experiences. I didn’t even have a need for Virtual Reality, so I never gave it a thought.
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Things are about to get very interesting. These four disruptive digital technologies aren't mainstream, but they will change the very fabric of learning.
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I wanted to share some of my absolute favorite resources for virtual reality in education. Here are tools for teachers looking for new educational VR apps. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Desiree Dominguez's curator insight,
June 6, 2021 11:17 PM
Various apps are being developed for teachers.
Ricardo Mendoza's curator insight,
September 16, 2021 11:24 AM
Virtual reality in Education is NOT lagging behind, worldwide more and more countries are implementing virtual videos to their educational curriculum. Its changing from trying to remember what you read or hear to learning at the same time you are doing and seeing something with virtual videos. In Virtual education students are motivate and that improves their learning process in general.
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January 6, 2023 12:19 PM
Information about the future of IT when considering usage for educational purpouses.
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The hype around virtual reality (VR) has died down a bit, though the conference keeps going. I was happy to attend the Versions conference earlier this year, though I was disappointed (but not surprised) that there wasn’t that much new stuff. Rather, it seems there is less happening than there was before as the medium continues to figure out what its best use cases are if it is to become a consumer technology.
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In a technology-dependent education culture, are there some technologies to avoid? And if so, why, and what are better alternatives? Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Becky Roehrs's curator insight,
March 31, 2017 4:28 PM
Ouch-lots of popular stuff to avoid-social media, e-books, gaming..but lots we can do instead-forums, VR/AR, OER..
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Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, haptic feedback; the line between these and many other technological realities is becoming blurred and they are beginning to be grouped under one umbrella term: artificial reality. But what is artificial reality and how can it be used effectively in the classroom?
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