Tech Tips: Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality

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Virtual Reality

An artificial environment that is presented in such a way that the user accepts it as real using sight and/or hearing (TechTarget)

Examples

• Google Cardboard Demo Video
• 8 Experiences to Try on Google Cardboard Right Now

• New York Times VR App

• Oculus Rift
• Inside Oculus' Quest to Design an Invisible VR Controller
• Oculus Rift with LeapMotion

VR in Education

• Lower Costs, Newer Tech Help VR Become a Reality in the Classroom
  • How VR Could Change the Way Students Experience Education
• Understanding Social Immersion, Improving Instructional Design are Vital To Keeping VR Around
• Google & The Future of Learning
• Developing an Understanding of the Pedagogy of Using a Virtual Reality Learning Environment (VRLE) to Support Innovative Education
• An Overview of VR / Virtual Environments for Education and Training
• Low-cost VR for Medical Training
• Investigation of Effects of VR Environments on Learning Performance of Technical Skills
• VR: Applications and Explorations
• TEDx Talks: Designing for VR & the Impact on Education

VR in the News

• The Hype Around VR is Fading
• It Was a Good Year for VR, until AR Stole It
• UX Trends 2017: Experts Bet on AI, Chatbots and VR
• Start Thinking about a Virtual Reality Career Now

Augmented Reality

Superimposing digital information onto a user's environment in real time (Tech Target)

Examples

• Pokemon Go is the Future

• The White House's 1600 App

• New York Times' T Brand Studio

• HoloLens Demo
• HoloLens Actiongrams
• Holoportation: Virtual 3D Teleportation

AR in Education

• Transforming Medical Education with Microsoft Hololens at Case Western Med School
• Handbook of Augmented Reality
• Computers & Education (2013): Current Status, Opportunities and Challenges of AR in Education
• Journal of Educational Technology Development & Exchange (2011): Augmented Reality: An Overview and Five Directions for AR in Education
• TechTrends (2012): Augmented Reality in Education and Training
• Procedia - Social & Behavioral Sciences (2012): Augmented Reality in Education: Current Technologies and the Potential for Education

Recording 360 Videos

Theta

• Sample Photo #1 (Sangamon Auditorium lobby)
• Sample Photo #2 (UIS campus)
• Sample Photo #3 (Inside Sangamon Auditorium)

Sample Videos

• Unprocessed (what the video looks like with standard viewing software)
• Processed (what it looks like with 360-enabled software, or with YouTube's new 360 feature enabled)
• YouTube's demo 360 videos
• Ricoh Theta downloads (mobile apps and computer viewing software)
• Ricoh Theta Store