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Categories Virtual Reality, VR Experience

A VR 360 Experience in a Cereal Box

July 15, 2018September 9, 2015
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, …

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Categories Virtual Reality, Wearables

SXSW – Please Support Our SXSW Proposals

February 2, 2020September 6, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Narrative Clip Wearable Camera Now Takes Video

February 17, 2020September 4, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Wearable Market Explodes – And It’s Apple Versus Fitbit

February 3, 2020August 30, 2015
Wearable Market - Apple Watch

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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Categories Learning, Virtual Reality

Huge Virtual Reality Center Opens in Australia

June 28, 2016August 22, 2015

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 …

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Categories Virtual Reality

Star Wars Virtual Reality Lab at ILM

July 27, 2018August 15, 2015

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 …

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Categories Virtual Reality

Time Magazine’s Hilarious Cover on Virtual Reality

June 28, 2016August 9, 2015
Time Magazine Cover

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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Categories Virtual Reality

Oculus VR Buys Pebbles Digital Sensing Technology

December 30, 2015July 16, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Emotional Wearable Tech – a new development in the wearable market

September 10, 2020July 12, 2015

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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Categories Virtual Reality, Wearables

Immersive Learning: The Wearable Pop-up Studio @ NMC

December 27, 2017July 5, 2015

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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Categories Learning, Wearables

Wearables Will Transform Learning

December 26, 2017June 16, 2015

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 …

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Categories Learning, Virtual Reality

Expeditions – Google Offers Immersive Learning

May 30, 2015May 28, 2015

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 …

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Categories Learning, Wearables

Wearables Enter The Learning Environment

December 21, 2017May 23, 2015

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 …

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Categories Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Amusement Park – The Void

July 27, 2018May 18, 2015

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 …

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Categories Learning, Wearables

Microsoft’s HoloLens and Learning

December 21, 2017May 7, 2015
HoloLens and Learning - will this be a new way to transform Education?

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 …

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Categories Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Comes to Tribeca Film Festival

July 27, 2018April 27, 2015

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 …

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Categories Virtual Reality

Stunning Virtual Reality – the RoundMe App

February 2, 2020April 17, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Apple Watch Redefines Wearable Tech

December 26, 2017April 12, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Disney Gets Wearable Technology

February 1, 2020April 10, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Apple Watch Design Lesson – Keep It Simple

September 10, 2020April 2, 2015
The new Apple Watch

  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 …

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Categories Wearables

Beyond SXSWedu: The Wearable Conversation Continues

July 15, 2018March 18, 2015

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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Categories Wearables

Wearables and Health Concerns

April 10, 2016March 18, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Apple’s ResearchKit may Transform Medical Research by Crowdsourcing Data

December 21, 2017March 14, 2015

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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Categories Wearables

SXSWedu Preview Video: Wear to Learn

November 18, 2019March 11, 2015

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 …

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Categories Wearables

Apple Watch Selection Flowchart

December 26, 2017March 10, 2015

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. …

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Categories Wearables

Apple Watch Out of the Box – a New Era in Wearables

December 21, 2017March 10, 2015

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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Categories Learning, Wearables

SXSW Session – Wear to Learn: The Body as an Interface

July 15, 2018March 6, 2015

  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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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.

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  • 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.

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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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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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