21st Century Learning and Teaching

You don’t need a VR headset to experience virtual reality. That’s the message that AR/VR guru Jaime Donally wants all educators to understand.

“Headsets present barriers. I focus on implementation,” says Donally, author The Immersive Classroom: Create Customized Learning Experiences with AR/VR. “There’s a place for VR, but it needs to be more specific and thought through or VR becomes a road block.”

As both augmented and virtual reality become more accessible on ordinary devices, Donally hopes more educators will explore the potential of these tools. Augmented reality (AR) layers and enhances reality. Think using your phone camera to translate a foreign language. Virtual reality (VR) creates its own reality that is disconnected from the real world. It’s possible to use VR, such as a 360-degree view on a phone, without using a headset.

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POLY:

Google veröffentlicht 3D-Bibliothek für AR und VR
Wer bisher bei der Erstellung oder der Suche von 3D-Objekten oder -Szenen wenig Erfolg hatte, für den hat Google nun Poly: Die Bibliothek umfasst Tausende von Assets für Augmented Reality - egal ob per ARCore oder per ARKit - und Virtual Reality.
Google hat mit Poly eine 3D-Bibliothek für App-Entwickler online gestellt, die Objekte für Augmented Reality und Virtual Reality enthält.

In einem Blogeintrag erläutert Googles Andrea Zvinakis, dass sich Poly für Apples ARKit genauso eignet wie für Googles eigenes ARCore. Die Bibliothek ist zudem mit Blocks und mit Tilt Brush für VR-Headset wie HTCs Vive verknüpft.

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Watch immersive VR and 360-degree clips using a cheap Cardboard viewer.

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Google is convinced about the long-term of VR. The company is heavily pushing it through affordable hardware initiatives like Google Cardboard and Daydream. And now, Mountain View is bringing it to the classroom with the aim of introducing the concept to one million British schoolchildren.

In his first visit to the UK since landing the coveted role of Google CEO, Sundar Pichai has said that Mountain View will offer VR training and resources to teachers through its Google Expeditions program.

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Virtual reality is an amazing technology. While we don’t claim to know if it’ll succeed in the gaming world outside of a narrow niche, the demos and games we’ve seen have been impressive, particularly when it comes to creating a sense of “being there.”

Now, German prosecutors have created an advanced VR simulation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz, in an effort to model exactly where specific Nazi war criminals were and what they saw.

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Teachers can take their students on virtual field trips with Expeditions. For more information, visit google.com/edu/expeditions

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Oculus Rift Is Too Cool to Ignore

Now that virtual reality has arrived (again), it’s here to stay—even if it’s not clear exactly how we will end up using it.

Virtual field trips

In addition to traveling to the moon, you can use Rift to kayak down the Colorado River while checking out the Grand Canyon, tossing tiny pellets to lure passing fish. You can dive with sharks, sea turtles, and other creatures, watching exhalation bubbles seep from the spot where your face mask should be and feeling that prickly sense you get when you’re actually underwater, wondering if something is creeping up behind you.

Over the next three years, such virtual field trips will become a lot more common, says Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. His lab built one such experience, called The Crystal Reef, which lets you swim through areas of varying acidity in the ocean to explore the effects of carbon dioxide on underwater habitats. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, and Bailenson expects it to be available for Rift and HTC’s Vive headset in a few months.

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It’s no surprise that more learning and development professionals are beginning to explore how VR training might fit into their organization’s goals. This rapidly emerging, highly immersive training tool offers numerous benefits to learners and organizations alike. 

Hilton’s director of learning innovation calls VR “the future of learning.” Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices’ VP of global education also remarked on the vast potential of this technology saying, “The world doesn’t have enough access to safe healthcare because there aren’t enough trained surgeons. VR tools can help solve this global crisis.

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Die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft bedingt einen höheren Stellenwert der beruflichen Weiterbildung, so der Präsident des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB), Friedrich Hubert Esser. "In einer Arbeitswelt von morgen mit steigenden Datenmengen, kürzer werdenden Halbwertszeiten von Wissen sowie einer erhöhten Flexibilität am Arbeitsplatz ist berufliche Weiterbildung schon lange nicht mehr Kür, sondern Pflicht", betont Esser in der aktuellen Ausgabe der BIBB-Fachzeitschrift "Berufsbildung in Wissenschaft und Praxis - BWP" mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Weiterbildung".

Der digitale Transformationsprozess, der Einsatz von Robotern sowie der wachsende Einfluss künstlicher Intelligenz sorge für bislang nicht gekannte strukturelle Verschiebungen in Arbeits- und Produktionsprozessen. Arbeiten und Lernen werden sich von Grund auf ändern. "Der Umgang mit leistungsstarken IT-Infrastrukturen sowie das Arbeiten und Lernen in Virtual- und Augmented-Reality-Umgebungen oder mithilfe von Erklärvideos und Tutorials sind längst keine Zukunftsmusik mehr", so der BIBB-Präsident weiter.

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Google hat Chrome mit WebVR-Technologie ausgestattet und eine kompatible Webseite mit VR-Inhalten gelauncht. Nutzer von VR-Brillen können die Technologie damit direkt über den Web-Browser erleben.

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Future Ready: VR, AR, and MR in the classroom beyond the novelty. Classroom level application of VR, AR, and MR content is a form of job readiness. These emergent technologies are fun and exciting, they can be used to captivate students but what’s the learning value beyond that? As educators we regularly asking ourselves what…

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Pour mieux former certains personnels médicaux face aux situations de crise comme les attentats, une équipe pluridisciplinaire de chercheurs met au point un simulateur virtuel doté d'intelligence artificielle.

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Die Lernplattform Udacity bietet ab Oktober 2016 ein neues Nanodegree-Programm an, in dem Nutzer Kurse zum Entwickeln von VR-Inhalten belegen können. Verwendet wird die Unity-Engine.

Thomas Metzinger is a philosopher at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, who specialises in the philosophy of mind and neuroscience. He is co-author, with Michael Madary, of a paper calling for a code of conduct for virtual reality.

Why do we need an ethical code of conduct for virtual reality?

Virtual reality headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will hit the consumer market this year and suddenly millions of people will be using them. VR can induce strong illusions of embodiment, where you feel as if you own and control another body. We do not know what the psychological consequences will be.

What are the risks?

There may be a risk of depersonalisation, where after an extended immersion in a virtual environment, your physical body may seem unreal to you. Fully immersive experiences have a bigger and more lasting impact on people’s behaviour and psychology. We know from the rubber hand illusion that our brains can be fooled into thinking that an inanimate rubber hand is our own. In VR environments, we can be fooled into thinking that we are our avatars.Consumers must understand that not all of the risks are known in advance. There may be a tiny percentage of the population that has a certain psychiatric vulnerability such that binging on VR may result in a prolonged psychotic episode. One can only speculate.

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