Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
It’s no surprise that theme parks are devastated by the Coronavirus. All a park can do is close their doors, promise to retain their employees (or not), and watch the balance sheet turn red. The public will …
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You won’t have to wait much longer before you can step into the Star Wars AR experience. The new $199 Lenovo Mirage AR headset is already available for pre-order and will hit the stores in early November. The …
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Back in a rainy NYC after the Campus Technology conference in Chicago and it seems to be raining new AR headsets this summer. Cardboard-like DIY kits are appearing, there’s news on the Disney-Star Wars front, and a fascinating HMD …
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If you haven’t seen any of Samsung’s VR rides you should. In fact, get on one as soon as you can. They turn up at conferences (CES 2017 and elsewhere) and at Samsung 837, Samsung’s pioneering …
The annual Educause conference is a fast-paced week that brings together over 7000 EdTech and IT professionals. This year we meet in Anaheim, California. Future trends in learning is one of the themes at Educause and …
Read more Off to Educause: VR, Visual Culture and Future Trends in Learning
The announcement for the Virtual Reality Ghost Train at Thorpe Park is another sign of VR’s warm embrace by theme parks. It comes on the heels of the VR roller coaster planned at Alton Towers and rumors of …
Disney’s Lion King VR Experience the “Circle of Life” brings more than delight, it marks a major step into the world of virtual reality entertainment. Over the past year filmmakers, media and tech giants have wrestled …
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The ever-inventive Disney research team has developed an amazing augmented reality coloring book. In a world of rich visual displays, coloring books seem like an anachronism. Yet they remain one of the first expressions of creativity …
Virtual reality will change the way stories are told and in the process the way they are created. With the recent tech developments and VR projects in the making there’s little doubt that Virtual Reality will …
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 Reality Effects With so …
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 of Glass will appear) …