VR, AR, and the Future of Learning
You have to sit up and take notice when a company like Walmart expands its VR training. The retailing giant is purchasing 17,000 Oculus Go headsets to train employees in new technology, compliance, and soft skills such …
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While this week’s VR news will focus on the upcoming Oculus Connect conference, Google’s Daydream VR headset is gaining new features. Two of the experimental developments are designed for the only Daydream standalone HMD on the market …
Read more New features coming to Google’s Daydream VR headset
You no doubt heard the news about Elon Musk’s SpaceX project that will take a billionaire to the moon. Tuesday, he tweeted that they would livestream the moon mission in VR. And in high def, no less. Moon …
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The latest Google VR film, “The Journey of Gold”, explores the issue of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As you may know, over five million people have died from resource extraction conflicts …
EDUCAUSE 2018 is coming up and we’ll be focusing on immersive learning in a number of events. Join us for a full-day pre-conference workshop on Learning Experiences in 360° Video and a breakout session on Ethics …
Read more Take a deep dive into Immersive Learning at EDUCAUSE 2018
The announcement of iOS12 brought significant enhancements to Apple’s AR initiative. There were new iPhones but no major surprises at the September 12th event (you weren’t expecting AR Glasses this year, were you?), but everything points …
Read more Apple AR improves with games and object recognition
Welcome to the future . . . well, not quite, but another step closer. Or as VentureBeat put it, If you’ve been waiting for live, hologram-like human beings to pop up in AR or VR experiences, …
Read more Welcome to the future – AR teleportation platform acquired by Jaunt
After a long weekend of work (conference proposals, VR projects, etc.), we were delighted to stumble upon Nancy Baker Cahill’s AR art project. There’s nothing like augmented reality to transform your workspace even if it’s nothing more than …
Read more COORDINATES: The fascinating collaborative AR Art Project
A recent list of Augmented Reality quotes in Forbes by Bernard Marr got us thinking about the AR revolution that will sweep over us in the next five years. Combined with quotes from a 2017 article in …
Read more 10 Augmented Reality quotes on the coming AR revolution