EDUCAUSE 2015 • Digital Bodies

Virtual Reality resources for the EDUCAUSE 2015 Preconference workshop, “Augmented Minds, Smart Bodies: Wearable Tech Enters the Academy.”

Educause 2015 Virtual Reality Resources

Virtual Reality Apps	iOS	Android
JauntVR	Jaunt VR	Jaunt VR
Jaunt is an online source of cinematic VR Recommended: Inside Syria ABCNews report
VRSE	VRSE	VRSE
Recommended: U2, “Song for Someone” Recommended: Clouds Over Sidra – (large download – 700Mb) – this video will be available on separate VR headsets)
IM360	IM360	IM360
Click on Mode and select 3D Side/Side If you look down at the symbol at your feet, you will move
EON Reality	EON Reality	EON Reality
World’s largest Virtual Reality Library Recommended: Egypt 360 Photosphere (large download – 700Mb)
You Visit VR	You Visit VR	You Visit VR
Travel sites, businesses and some universities here. Interesting VR interface – stare at the globes to access content
Google Cardboard App	Cardboard	Cardboard
360 immersive scenes demonstrating Google Cardboard
WeShareVR	WeShareVR	WeShareVR
A marketplace to share and exchange Virtual Reality files Recommended: Ivan Fisher’s Budapest Festival Orchestra
360 Immersive Photo Apps
RoundMe	RoundMe
Note that if you position a floating bubble shaped icon in the middle of the viewer, you will be transported to another location
360 Panorama	360 Panorama	360 Panorama
Very easy to create your own 360 immersive photographs
American Museum of Natural History
360 immersive tour of the American Museum of Natural History through your laptop

News, Media, and Events

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.

We are speaking at the United Nations Learning Forum on "Immersive Learning and The Future of Work," June 2019.

Emory Craig will be speaking at the AI Everything Summit in Dubai, "Who Can You Trust? Welcome to the Future of AI-driven Avatars in XR." May 1, 2019.

Join us on the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander at 2:00pm (EST) on Feb. 28th for an interactive discussion and update on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Education.

We're at the EDUCAUSE-ELI Annual Meeting in Anaheim to do a 360 Video workshop, a Discussion on VR and Empathy, and the release of the Horizon Report

Emory Craig and Jesse Damiani discuss the future of VR, AR, and XR on the AV Life Podcast.

Emory Craig is speaking at the AIM North conference on VR and AI as Catalysts for Innovation in Learning, Nov. 7th

Emory Craig is speaking at the OECD Workshop on DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION at OsloMet University in Norway, Nov. 5-6th

We're at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver to do a Preconference workshop on 360° Video and other sessions on VR during the week of Oct. 29th.

Maya Georgieva did an Ignite talk on Storytelling at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab on August 1.