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Art will be profoundly transformed by the incredible developments in VR and AR. It gives artists the remarkable opportunity to create experiences instead of objects and move outside the traditional gatekeepers in the museum and gallery system. Augmented reality will ultimately transform all our public space into potential exhibition space. In virtual reality, artists will be able to create environments where art and our experience of it are no longer bound by location or time.

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A Harrowing VR Story: Carne y Arena Returns for a Global Tour

November 11, 2020
CARNE y ARENA: A compelling VR Story returns for a global tour fall 2020 and spring 2021.

CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) originally premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in 2017. It was the first VR story featured at the festival, which like most film festivals, …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

Jenny Holzer AR Art Debuts at the University of Chicago

October 5, 2020
Jenny Holzer AR art debuts October 5 at the University of Chicago.

The Jenny Holzer AR art app debuts today at the University of Chicago. The work of the well-known conceptual artist is well suited for augmented reality. She began in New York in …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

Nancy Baker Cahill’s Remarkable AR Liberty Bell for July 4th

September 21, 2020July 3, 2020
AR Liberty Bell artwork at the site of the Boston Tea Party by Nancy Baker Cahill

Nancy Baker Cahill’s AR Liberty Bell for the 4th of July holiday is her latest experiment in using augmented reality for public art. The work uses an abstract shape that echoes the …

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New Banksy Artwork Honors Coronavirus Healthcare Workers

October 6, 2020May 6, 2020
New Banksy artwork appears at Southhampton General Hospital in the UK and will be auctioned off to support healthcare workers.

Frequent readers will know we spend a lot of time in virtual reality – and writing and thinking about it. Its creative potential just draws us in, especially in the immersive storytelling …

Read more New Banksy Artwork Honors Coronavirus Healthcare Workers

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

KAWS’s AR Art Sculptures Ideal for Coronavirus Pandemic

May 6, 2020March 16, 2020
KAWS's AR Art Sculptures Ideal for a Coronavirus Pandemic.

As society shudders to a halt with the Coronavirus, the artist KAWS AR art sculptures may be the safest way to experience groundbreaking art this month. Virtual Reality may be challenged in …

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Categories 360 Video, Art, Virtual Reality

The Art of Immersive Storytelling Workshop at Anderson Ranch Art Center

May 6, 2020February 20, 2020
the art of immersive storytelling

This summer, I will be teaching The Art of Immersive Storytelling workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. The mission of Anderson Ranch Arts is to enrich lives with art, …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

Apple [AR]T Project: AR in Central Park

May 6, 2020August 10, 2019
AR in Central Park

We’ve been waiting for a good AR in Central Park project, not that we get uptown than much (or even at all) with our hectic schedules this summer. Parks can easily become …

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Categories Art, VR Experience

VR in Classical Music – Michel van der Aa’s Breakthrough Project

May 6, 2020July 9, 2019
VR in classical music

As Joshua Barone notes in The New York Times, VR in classical music hasn’t resulted in the most exciting immersive projects. Like other disciplines, both opera and classical music wrestle with how …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

Boston the Site of the Largest AR Art Exhibit in America

May 6, 2020May 26, 2019
largest AR Art exhibit

If you find yourself near Boston this summer, check out the largest AR art exhibit in America. Go see it for the art. See it for the ways AR can create art …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

COORDINATES: The fascinating collaborative AR Art Project

May 6, 2020September 10, 2018
AR Art in the 4th Wall App

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 watching augmented reality transform your workspace – …

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Categories Art, VR Experience

Virtual Reality artist live performance at the Louvre Museum in Paris

September 10, 2020August 27, 2018
virtual reality artist live performance

Working under the title, Anna’s Dream Brush, the Virtual Reality artist Anna Zhilyaeva has done fascinating work with Google Tilt Brush. This weekend, a live performance at the Louvre Museum in Paris surfaced on YouTube. …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality

The Stunning AR Art Exhibition – “Mirages and Miracles”

May 6, 2020August 3, 2018
AR Art Exhibition Mirages and Miracles

We were reminded today of the stunning work in the AR art exhibition, Mirages and Miracles through a tweet from WITHIN. The work by the digital artists Adrien M & Claire B …

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David Bowie in VR – The exhibition lives on

May 6, 2020July 24, 2018
David Bowie in VR and AR

The incredible David Bowie Is exhibit may have wrapped up but we’ll soon get to see David Bowie in VR – or at least major parts of the incredibly popular exhibition. After being …

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Categories Art, Augmented Reality, Learning

Augmented Reality improves – Apple’s ARKit upgrade

May 6, 2020January 25, 2018
Augmented Reality improves with Apple ARKit Upgrade

Augmented Reality improves with a major update from Apple for its ARKit platform. Version 1.5 rolls out a number of essential features for the future of AR: It will be able to …

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Categories Art, Virtual Reality

Six artists collaborate to do a VR painting of Star Wars with Tilt Brush

May 6, 2020December 16, 2017
VR Painting of Star Wars Scene

Can you really go wrong when you use Google’s Tilt Brush – one of our favorite Virtual Reality tools – to render the characters in Star Wars? Here’s a fascinating example of six artists …

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Categories Art, Virtual Reality

VR Storytelling – The Harrowing Immigrant Experience at LACMA

November 11, 2020July 6, 2017
Carne y Arena VR Storytelling by Alejandro G Iñárritu

If you’re near Los Angeles and interested in VR storytelling, get yourself over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA has an amazing VR experience from the Mexican film director …

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A Virtual Reality Experience of a Dalí Painting

May 6, 2020January 17, 2016

Here’s a virtual reality experience that will let you step inside a Dalí painting. The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL will be giving visitors the opportunity to literally immerse themselves Dalí’s work …

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ASU ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project

Humersive Learning Project - a project that considers human and student experience in the context of emerging technologies and the convergence of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI).-

We’re delighted to announce our ASU ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project, an actionable exploration of the intersection of humanity and immersive learning and our new roles as Innovators in Residence.

News, Media, and Events

  • Emory Craig will be speaking at the GESS Education Global Leadership Summit, Tuesday, March 23rd at 10:30 AM (EDT) on "Learning in Virtual Worlds: How Augmented and Virtual Reality is Transforming Education in a Global Pandemic."

  • Join us at the ShapingEDU Winter Games this week! Lunch Session: Wednesday January 6, 12:30-1:00pm MST for the latest on the Hummersive Learning Project and a breakout session on Thursday, 10:45am MST on "Learning with Emodied Avatars in the Future."

  • Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Economist on Using augmented reality in marketing.

  • Join us today at the iLRN Conference where we'll present as co-authors the Executive Summary of the State of XR Report at 1:00pm (EST), June 23rd - immersively in VirBELA.

  • Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Atlantic It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram on the use of AR during the Coronavirus.

  • Emory Craig did a keynote at the GESSDubai Conference in Dubai, UAE, "Reinventing Learning for the Future: A World of Virtual Reality and AI Avatars."

  • Emory Craig spoke at the XR in Education Summit at Yale University on "The Future of XR."

  • Maya Georgieva was on a panel at the Saleforce conference, "The Evolution and Power of Disruptive Technologies" in San Francisco.

  • We'll be at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago with a Preconference workshop and other sessions the week of October 14th.

  • We'll be at the OC6 conference and reporting on the latest news from Oculus in San Jose on Sept. 25th and 26th.

  • We're on an XR and Learning panel at the The Chronicle of Higher Education and HP Leadership Summit, September 17, 2019, at The City University of New York (CUNY) The Graduate School.

  • We're at several conferences this summer, including AWE, SIGGRAPH 2019, and Singularity University's Global Summit.

  • We're delighted to be joining faculty in the College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University for a full day Professional Development Workshop, "Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Nursing Education." June 2019.

  • Ready for a discussion on "Ethics and Digital Fluency in VR and Immersive Learning Environments"? Join us at the NYS-CIO Conference in June 2019.

Our EDUCAUSE-ELI Series, “VR/AR: Stepping into the New Frontier of Learning”

Article Series: Stepping into the New Frontier of Learning

Here are the articles from our New Frontier of Learning series for the EDUCAUSE Review (and summaries of the articles):

  • From VR and AR to Our XR Future: Transforming Higher Education
  • VR and AR: The Ethical Challenges Ahead
  • VR and AR: The Art of Immersive Storytelling and Journalism
  • VR and AR: Learners as Creators and World Builders of Our Immersive Future
  • VR and AR: Designing Spaces for Immersive Learning
  • VR and AR: Transforming Learning and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • VR and AR: Driving a Revolution in Medical Education & Patient Care
  • AR and VR in STEM: The New Frontiers in Science
  • A New World: VR and AR Tech Developments
  • Introducing the VR and AR Series: Stepping Into the New Frontier of Learning Series

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AR? VR? XR?

There are multiple terms covering the broad spectrum of immersive technologies from AR, which superimposes data and images on the user’s space to VR, which is a digitally simulated immersive environment where users can look, move around, or interact with virtual space or objects. Mixed Reality (MR) is a hybrid of the physical and the virtual that feels more immersive than AR since digital entities can be occluded by objects in the real world. And then there is XR (or Extended Reality), which is an umbrella concept covering augmented, mixed, and virtual reality. XR does not refer to specific technologies but the entire category of immersive technologies that extend and enhance human experience. 

 

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About Digital Bodies

Digital Bodies provides news and analysis of VR, AR, and AI and how these developments will impact education and society. The convergence of these technologies will transform how we communicate, learn, understand the world, and ourselves. We focus on a future where experiences will be available on demand, and the boundary between the real and the virtual disappear – and all that these developments imply for education and human experience.  The possibilities are exciting, the ethical challenges profound. 

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