Augmented & Virtual Reality

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Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality

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VR: artificially replaces all aspects of real reality (RR).

AR: places images over RR.

MR: objects in environment appear real.

XR: all of the above.

Amazon Sumerian

Amazon's big bet on augmented and virtual reality

Google Cardboard / Expeditions

• Google Cardboard Homepage
  • Watch 360 videos and animated scenarios or play games
• New York Times VR App
  • Google Brings Virtual Reality to the Masses through VR Theme Park
• Build your own AR/VR app for multiple platforms with Headjack.io

Google Expeditions Homepage

Google Daydream

• The next step beyond Cardboard
• Smartphone VR (Pixel, plus new updates for other Android models)
• Stand Alone VR headset from Lenovo

Google Glass Enterprise Edition

Google Glass Enterprise Edition is Ready for Work

Samsung Galaxy VR

• Samsung Galaxy VR with controller
  • New Wireless AR/VR Samsung controller announced at CES - coming soon!
  • Video of AR Chemistry Kit app being developed for Samsung platform

Merge Cube

Augmented Reality Cube that maps images to the cube and allows you to rotate it and examine it with your smart phone. You can buy the Merge Cube at big box stores or online; you can also print your own Merge Cube.

Microsoft HoloLens

• HoloLens Demo
• HoloLens Actiongrams
• HoloLens Development Edition Available for Pre-Order

Vive Pro

• University of Oklahoma Libraries OVAL (Oklahoma Virtual Academic Laboratory)
• Vive Pro Demo - coming in 2018
• Vive Pro Product website

Augmented Reality & Neuroscience

TedTalk promoting AR technology based on the principles of neuroscience to extend our physical senses with digital devices:

VR and AR: The Art of Immersive Storytelling and Journalism

Article link - This article talks about:

• Exploring VR as an art form
• Transformative storytelling experience
• Blending journalism and storytelling
• Advocacy
• Immersive live theater

Roane State Community College

Tennessee Tech University: iCube

• Student team are partnering with business to create VR experiences
• VR experiences – driving a buggy on the moon, visiting WWII historical sites
• Simulations – drugged/drowsy driving, experiencing a tornado
• Schedule a visit or explore on the TTU iCube website

University of Central Oklahoma Explores XR (Experiential Realities)

Carnival Games - Experiment to Learn VR Best practices for the HTC Vive

[YouTube Carnival Demo]

Virtual Crime Scene Investigations - A Prototype use by UCO Criminal Justice and Forensic Students to learn evidentiary procedures. Works online and in VR

[Instructions] | [Playable Demo]

Networked VR Model Viewer - A Multiplayer VR Room much like VR chat, that allows people to look at the Same 3D model, voice chat, with others and have lectures based around Statues or Tours of the human anatomy Magic School Bus/Fantastic Voyage Style

[YouTube Networked]

A Face a Face to a curriculum for Interior Design students where they learn how to create simple AR/VR apps to showcase projects for their portfolios from their 3D Revit models.

Instructor using VR Lab to create Digital Sculptures that are 3D printed for later use. [Example]

More Higher Ed Examples

• Oral Robert's University Global Learning Center
• Oklahoma State University's Mixed Reality Lab

AR Readings

• Current status, opportunities and challenges of augmented reality in education
• Augmented Reality: An Overview and Five Directions for AR in Education (PDF)
• Augmented Reality in Education and Training
• Handbook of Augmented Reality
• Augmented Reality in Education: Current Technologies and the Potential for Education
• Apple AR Glasses, release date rumored for 2019
  • Mobile Augmented Reality Assisted Chemical Education: Insights from Elements 4D by Yang, Mei, and Yue in Journal of Chemical Education.

VR Readings

• The US Army is using virtual reality to train their soldiers to navigate real cities
• Reduce Costs for Military Training with Virtual & Augmented Reality
• Mixed Reality: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Teaching and Learning
• Developing an Understanding of the Pedagogy of Using a Virtual Reality Learning Environment (VRLE) to Support Innovative Education
• An Overview of Virtual Reality / Virtual Environments for Education and Training
• Low cost virtual reality for medical training
• Investigation of effects of virtual reality environments on learning performance of technical skills
• Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations
• Best VR Headsets of 2018 from Wareable