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There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room. 
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Sharing a virtual reality (VR) headset with complete strangers is a sanitation nightmare in the world o
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Hollywood wants to get back to work but with the threat of COVID-19 unabated, producers are turning to virtual filmmaking to complete shoots
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Andrew Guo, an undergraduate major in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines earlier this month for his effort in building
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"This article is part of the guide Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis.
Andrew Guo, an undergraduate major in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines earlier this month for his effort in building a virtual replica of his university in Minecraft, the popular sandbox video game."
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Smaller galleries are getting into virtual tours as a way to keep local art communities going.
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Virtual escapism is perfect for a pandemic, but V.R. still seems far from a mainstream technology.
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WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR, where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. Mozilla, that is doing a lot for the immersive web, has so decided to develop a WebXR exporter for Unity, to let all Unity developers create WebXR experiences with the tool they already know well. This project dates from 2 years ago, but recently the WebXR plugin has been improved and updated.**
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR, where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. Mozilla, that is doing a lot for the immersive web, has so decided to develop a WebXR exporter for Unity, to let all Unity developers create WebXR experiences with the tool they already know well. This project dates from 2 years ago, but recently the WebXR plugin has been improved and updated."
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A Nordic company has introduced a virtual reality collaboration platform. Glue Collaboration's software by the same name facilitates virtual environments where remote participants can come together to learn, share, plan and create as if they were in the same physical space.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"A Nordic company has introduced a virtual reality collaboration platform. Glue Collaboration's software by the same name facilitates virtual environments where remote participants can come together to learn, share, plan and create as if they were in the same physical space.
Users enter 3D customizable virtual spaces equipped with co-creation tools, including a whiteboard, note-taking, 3D draw, a camera and a laser pointer. The software works on numerous VR headsets, including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Quest and Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets, including the HoloLens."
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Erica Southgate is Associate Professor of Emerging Technologies for Education in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Lead Researcher of the VR School Research Project.
Kylie Terlier's curator insight,
May 13, 2021 9:35 AM
VR has the potential to engage so many students and open their eyes to the world of science.
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Scripting the Future Imagine & Invent Spend as long as you like designing a virtual world. Consider visual, audio and haptic experiences. Plan & Collaborate Connect with other SpaceDraft users and developers to test your concept prior to production. Share & Distribute Share your blueprint for virtual space and save the pain of building something that is too late to change.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Another member of the Learning Futures Network shifting the expectations and possibilities of high order creative activity in the digital and virtual workforce of the future.
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Seeing as nobody's going outside at the moment, it would be pretty great to have an entire version of Earth to explore in a video game, right?
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Graduates at Purdue University Global recently had the option to participate in their commencement ceremonies virtually, thanks to a pilot program using virtual reality to provide an immersive remote experience of the event.
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2020 Educators in VR International Summit February 17-22, 2020 The 2020 Educators in VR International Summit is a free, open-to-the public, virtual event lasting 6 days (over 150 round-the-clock hours) with a diverse range of over 150 speakers and presentations covering: Down to The Basics of VR/AR/XR/MR Research into Spatial Technologies in Education Corporate Uses…
Peter Mellow's insight:
I said this when I looked at some of the education spaces in 2nd life when it came out. We seem to replicate the #lecture theatre & show #PowerPoint a lot in these new proposed alternatives.
Samantha-Kaye Johnston's curator insight,
April 3, 2020 11:01 PM
This is a great summit to learn how we can advance educational outcomes using VR.
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According to educator Steven Sato, virtual reality in education can create equitable learning experiences and provide increased opportunity, knowledge, and inspiration to students. Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Kristi Newgarden
Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
June 13, 2020 7:23 AM
How can Virtual Reality bring Equity to Education? A very interesting article from EdTechTimes ;)
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Spending too long wearing a virtual reality headset could have implications for vision, doctor warns.
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The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn’t the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project revenue, as well as the launch of Epic Online Services, a free suite of tools to …
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn’t the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project revenue, as well as the launch of Epic Online Services, a free suite of tools to enable in-game friends lists, matchmaking, lobbies, and more. Alongside the reveal of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games today also announced a change to the pricing of Unreal Engine. Previously the cost to use the engine for building games was a 5% royalty on gross revenue of the game. Now Epic says it will waive the royalties for the first $1 million in revenue, and then resume the 5% fee from there. This is a permanent change and applies retroactively to revenue from January 1st, 2020."
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A new virtual reality device from a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers allows users to "feel" virtual walls and objects.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"A new virtual reality device from a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers allows users to "feel" virtual walls and objects. The invention, dubbed "Wireality," uses multiple string-loaded cables attached to the hand and fingers to simulate the sensation of solidity. When a user's hand is close to a wall in the virtual environment, for example, the strings are locked in place to emulate the sensation of touching the wall. Similar actions enable the user to feel the surface of an irregular object, sense resistance when he or she pushes up against something or interact physically with a virtual character."
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It’s one of the most under-appreciated science fiction films of the past decade, but Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (also the most expensive independent film ever made) subtly depicts a compelling vision for the way tools like augmented and virtual reality devices may intersect with the future of online shopping. virtual reality V-Ket 4 Aaron Image Credit: Aaron Frank The scene takes place in Big Market, a massive inter-dimensional marketplace consisting of more than a million shops. In reality, it’s located in a giant empty desert, but it can be accessed by visiting shoppers through their head-worn AR glasses. Take a look for yourself.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"Aside from showcasing how augmented reality can transform our relationship to physical land in unpredictable ways, even barren desert landscapes, it showcases what an almost fully “online” shopping experience might be like if you could physically walk through it in three-dimensional space. While we’re far from a Big Market existing in the real world, I’ve just experienced what is perhaps its closest precursor entirely in virtual reality using my own Oculus Rift headset at home. It’s called Virtual Market, and right now the fourth edition is currently underway in VRChat, one of the most-used social VR applications today."
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Between 1972 and 1981 Roger Ulrich investigated the records of 46 patients recovering from gallbladder surgery. Patients’ rooms on one side of the hospital looked out onto deciduous trees. The others looked out onto a brick wall. Ulrich, who believed his view of a pine tree aided in his recovery from kidney disease as a teenager, wanted to find out whether those with natural scenery might enjoy greater restorative benefits than those without.
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Virtual and augmented reality field trips can help to optimize learning for students who are unable to attend in the real world.
Joan S. Arias's curator insight,
April 29, 2020 12:49 PM
Experiential learning new step is virtual reality
Diego Herrón García's curator insight,
May 1, 2020 1:43 AM
VR education strikes as being an amazing tool for many things in the future, not only education. Although we need to wonder to what extent technology is beneficial and harmful for human beings, I think that we are not very far from the future in which we can attend a class or any type of meeting through VR. It is quite interesting how one watched movies that showed advanced technology that we thought was impossible to create or very far being real, but now it has come the time for VR. This type of technology will be great for those who cannot travel for multiple reasons because they will be able to explore some famous places around the world by using VR; although I feel that nothing equals traveling and physical interaction, VR will definitely make our lives easier in many aspects, such as Education and jobs. In the near future, one will not need to attend a class at a university or attend a meeting physically; instead, we will attend those meetings virtually by using an avatar or whatever it is. Since I am focused on language learning, I am looking forward to the day in which this type of technology is available for the common people so that we can learn languages by using this type of technology. I imagine myself being with my students in a certain place in VR and teaching them English while talking to them about the place and culture, it would be amazing. I think that VR will definitely change our lives forever because, once it is brought out for the common people, many things that we are used to do in our daily lives will become less often.
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Over the next two months, Kosovo's University for Business and Technology will be using the EON Reality platform to create 20,000 augmented/virtual reality lessons across a variety of subjects.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"Over the next two months, Kosovo's University for Business and Technology will be using the EON Reality platform to create 20,000 augmented/virtual reality lessons across a variety of subjects. The work is the first large-scale adoption of EON Reality's recently announced Self-Directed Learning Initiative, which provides a framework for students to create their own interactive learning content as part of coursework.
Two thousand students in 14 bachelor's programs and eight master's programs at the university will be assigned to execute 10 AR/VR lessons each. The programs range from Architecture and Energy Engineering to Nursing, Integrated Design and Agricultural and Environmental Engineering. A group of "high-level educators and experts" will select the best lessons to supplement the existing curricula on EON Reality's platform, according to news announcement. "Ultimately, the goal is to build a catalog of enough high-quality lessons to offer full academic curricula in numerous subjects and languages to educators and administrators for use in both remote learning as well as in-person classes," the company said."
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"Our brain’s inability to deal with issues we deem too far into the future is one of the reasons why scientists say people are not addressing climate change faster — some don’t even think it’s real. Turns out, talking about a nondescript threat does not trigger the inherent flight or fight response necessary to take action. Rather, many environmentalists believe showing the scenarios is most effective.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
"Solving a global challenge with spatial computing
Xennial wants to address a pressing global challenge, and believes a spatial computing based learning experience focused on climate change will have long-term impact. Potential users agree, as the idea has already received a great deal of interest. For one, administrators and teachers are seeking more factual resources as part of K-12 Earth sciences and environmental courses."
Kim Flintoff's curator insight,
April 2, 2020 7:41 PM
Solving a global challenge with spatial computing
Xennial wants to address a pressing global challenge, and believes a spatial computing based learning experience focused on climate change will have long-term impact. Potential users agree, as the idea has already received a great deal of interest. For one, administrators and teachers are seeking more factual resources as part of K-12 Earth sciences and environmental courses.
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VORTALS is the world's only completely learning experience platform designed to increase engagement and improve educational outcomes.
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Russ is working with schools across WA to provide genuine 21st Century engagement.
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Virtual reality let me experience firing a man. How termination simulations — and other VR experiences — are being used for corporate "soft skills" trainings.
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With the help of virtual reality, missing out on seeing a sold-out concert may be a thing of the past.
Ashley Pfeffer's curator insight,
July 25, 2021 11:26 PM
Virtual VR concerts are opening up opportunities to all audiences to experience better “closeup” performances of their favorite artists. CNN is a reliable source for all types of news Worldwide. The article is current, accurate with credible information and links, and the article is informative and not biased.
Steven Washam's curator insight,
April 22, 2022 12:00 PM
Tired of sold out venues? No more shoulder to shoulder contact, No more high priced drinks, and No more long lines for the restrooms. Virtual Reality music experience will change all that, giving you the concert experience from the comfort of your own home. I believe the VR concerts will help change the music industry in a many ways. VR concerts will create more industry jobs, will give the consumer 360 degree visuals from different positions of the venue, and less background noise. CNN Business has sparked my interest with this article. |
