A VR 360 Experience in a Cereal Box
How about a VR 360 Experience in a cereal box?? Yes, Kellogg is now offering cardboard VR goggles in a Nutri-grain cereal promotion in New Zealand. All you need is the box, …
SXSW – Please Support Our SXSW Proposals
SXSW 2016 We thoroughly enjoyed leading a Core Conversation on Wearable Technology at SXSW 2015. We have submitted two proposals for 2016, one to SXSWedu and one to SXSW-Interactive. Part of the …
Narrative Clip Wearable Camera Now Takes Video
The new Narrative Clip wearable camera now takes video: We saw an early model of Clip 2 at SXSW this year and video wasn’t part of the package, but adding video and …
Wearable Market Explodes – And It’s Apple Versus Fitbit
The wearable tech market is exploding – growing 223% in the second quarter of 2015. That works out to 18.1 million units shipped compared to 5.6 million units in the second quarter of …
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Huge Virtual Reality Center Opens in Australia
A Virtual Reality gaming center has opened in Melbourne, Australia. According to TNW: A new ‘free-roam’ gaming center in Melbourne, Australia called Zero Latency has opened to the public, designed to offer a genuinely …
Star Wars Virtual Reality Lab at ILM
Here’s a glimpse into the Star Wars Virtual Reality lab at the Industrial Light and Magic studio. This isn’t your Oculus Rift VR, but the future of entertainment and media. Things are …
Time Magazine’s Hilarious Cover on Virtual Reality
Time Magazine does an unintentionally humorous cover photo and article on Virtual Reality. But now that you’ve glanced at it, you can’t look away. And unfortunately, the image is seared into your …
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Oculus VR Buys Pebbles Digital Sensing Technology
Oculus VR announced Thursday that it agreed to buy Pebbles Interfaces, one of the leading firms in the development of depth and motion-sensing technology. It could be a major step forward in …
Emotional Wearable Tech – a new development in the wearable market
Wearables are a lot like our Smartphones – great at some things but not really all that smart. Our wearables function as recording devices, counting our steps, measuring our physical activity – …
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Immersive Learning: The Wearable Pop-up Studio @ NMC
We had a blast exploring immersive learning at the 2015 New Media Consortium conference in Washington, DC, creating a Wearable Pop-up Studio for the NMC Idea Lab. Immersive Learning Increasingly, we live …
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Wearables Will Transform Learning
I’ve been thinking a lot about Learning and Wearables as I’m at the Digital Education Show – Asia (an excellent conference by the way) in Kuala Lumpur where I’m giving a talk on …
Expeditions – Google Offers Immersive Learning
Immersive learning is about to get a lot more real this fall with Expeditions – the new Google tool which will allow teachers to take students on virtual trips using the Google …
Wearables Enter The Learning Environment
With Apple watch selling this summer, Wearables will enter the campus this fall en masse. The mobile revolution is having a significant impact on learning and the lives of our students, and …
Virtual Reality Amusement Park – The Void
Virtual Reality company “The Void” announced it is creating a new 100,000 Square foot VR amusement park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Here’s the rendering of the entrance to its gaming center: 4D Virtual …
Microsoft’s HoloLens and Learning
Microsoft set the tech community abuzz with a demonstration of their new Wearable Technology, HoloLens, at the recent Build event. HoloLens works with Windows 10 to create a holographic augmented reality environment …
Virtual Reality Comes to Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual Reality was the new arrival at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, spurred on by the development of inexpensive VR gear from Oculus, Samsung and Google (Google Cardboard). Stanford professor Jeremy …
Stunning Virtual Reality – the RoundMe App
After a wave of Virtual Reality apps for Android phones (no surprise given Google’s role here), VR apps are now coming to the iPhone. RoundMe is a newcomer to this group and after …
Apple Watch Redefines Wearable Tech
Apple Watch redefines the Wearable Tech category this week. Within weeks, thousands of people will be walking the streets with a miniature computer strapped to their wrist. The talk will be: How …
Disney Gets Wearable Technology
If there’s a single company that understands Wearable Technology, it’s Disney with the rollout of its MagicBand Wearable in the Magic Kingdom theme parks. Google stumbled (though we can assume another version …
Apple Watch Design Lesson – Keep It Simple
As we get ready for the Apple Watch release on April 24th, developers have been hard at work designing the apps. Evernote has taken to heart lessons learned from developing apps for the …
Beyond SXSWedu: The Wearable Conversation Continues
The conversation from our Wear to Learn session on Wearables in Education at SXSWedu continues. We truly enjoyed the active participation in our session and were excited to see some after-conference summaries that …
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Wearables and Health Concerns
The New York Times has published an article by Nick Bilton on Wearables in the Style section that tackles possible health concerns with the Apple Watch – surprisingly, it reads more like …
Apple’s ResearchKit may Transform Medical Research by Crowdsourcing Data
Apple’s ResearchKit reveals the disruptive potential for the mobile devices and the Quantified Self. In just 24 hours, 11,000 iPhone owners signed up for a heart health study. As Alan Yeung, medical director …
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SXSWedu Preview Video: Wear to Learn
Watch the preview video for our presentation Wear to Learn on Wearables in Education at SXSWedu on Thursday morning, 10:30-11:30am in Salon F at the Hilton Austin Hotel. We are on the …
Apple Watch Selection Flowchart
The Joy of Tech nailed it with their humorous Apple Watch Selection Flowchart. And this is why Apple may garner a large share of the Wearable Tech market – choice and personalization. …
Apple Watch Out of the Box – a New Era in Wearables
The long awaited Apple Watch is poised to redefine the place of Wearables in our lives. Get ready to discover your body – get ready for Digital Bodies 2.0. The most far-reaching …
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SXSW Session – Wear to Learn: The Body as an Interface
Join us for our SXSW-EDU session on Wearable Technology in Austin, Texas! The session will be on Thursday, March 12th at 10:30am. SXSW-EDU Description: What happens as wearable tech enters the …
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