2020 growth rates
Growth rates in 2020:
• Gaming: +20%
• Box Office: -70%
• Music: +5%
• Streaming Video: +18% https://t.co/hUAYc7JMyr— Rex Woodbury (@rex_woodbury) April 25, 2021
Archive of ‘gamification’ category
Is SAMR Dead
Is SAMR Dead?
https://www.techlearning.com/news/is-samr-dead
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Epic Games and Digital Reality
Epic Games ‘Metaverse’ Completes $1B Funding with $200M from Sony—Developers to Build a Digital Reality
According to Venture Beat, Epic Games has recently had a successful round of funding, raising a sum of $1 billion for its proposed digital reality world
The metaverse idea of connecting all of Epic Games’ titles is an ingenious way of integrating one game after the other, becoming the common ground for all games, each player with their avatars. This highly resembles “Ready Player One’s” OASIS metaverse, which is a digital, virtual, and augmented reality that leads to different online platforms.
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Rec Room
Last month, #RecRoom reached a $1 billion valuation. Experts say that more such #unicorns are on the way, especially in applications that encourage #virtual #communities to thrive.
More unicorns likely in #community-based #VR applications https://t.co/mhXYqL7qXE pic.twitter.com/Q5iNpyhAHw
— Charlie Fink (@CharlieFink) April 16, 2021
https://store.steampowered.com/app/471710/Rec_Room/
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Badging Blockchain
categories: badges, Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, gaming, instructional technology
LinkedIn’s 2020 list of skills in most demand includes these soft skills at the very top:
- Creativity
- Persuasion
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
And these hard skills at the very top:
- Blockchain
- Cloud computing
- Analytical reasoning
- Artificial intelligence
Further steps have been taken independently by universities that are utilizing blockchain technology to disseminate transcripts containing rich detail and documentation not available in the traditional paper document.
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Katrin Becker DGBL
categories: gamification, gaming
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katrin-Becker-3
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/01/10/soe-workshop-gamificaiton/
Games For Change
G4C & Epic Games Team Up to Bring Powerful EdTech Tools to the Classroom 🖥
- Introduction to Interactive 3D for Creators
- “Teach With Fortnite Creative” Workshop:
- “Teach with Fortnite Creative Level 2” Workshop
- “Teach with Unreal Engine” Workshop
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empathy and VR
categories: AR, Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, gaming, information literacy, VR
Coming wave of video games could build empathy on racism, environment and aftermath of war
“Our America” and four other projects will evenly split $125,000 from Unity, the company announced Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference, which runs online through Friday. Each project may also get technical, marketing, and fundraising support from Unity.
- Ahi Kā Rangers: An ecological mobile game with development led by Māori creators.
- Dot’s Home: A game that explores historical housing injustices faced by Black and brown home buyers.
- Future Aleppo: A VR experience for children to rebuild homes and cities destroyed by war.
- Samudra: A children’s environmental puzzle game that takes the player across a polluted sea to learn about pollution and plastic waste.
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AR VR engineering education
categories: AR, educational technology, gamification, instructional technology, student-centered learning, VR
Using AR/VR for Innovative Engineering Education
The use of AR/VR in educational settings is on the rise, paving the way for new careers and a workforce trained to embrace technology.
If projections stay on track, the global spending on educational AR/VR is expected to rise from $1.8 billion to $12.6 billion over the next four years.
the International Data Corporation (IDC) released a report indicating that the pandemic has fueled an impressive forecast of worldwide expenditures on AR/VR, which are expected to grow from $12 billion in 2020 to $72.8 billion by 2024.
rom completing spinal surgery to training at a high-tech facility, such as the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Davis Global Center, which has AR/VR and holographic technologies among its many offerings.
University of Hong Kong–Innovation Academy
MIT–MIT.nano Immersion Lab
the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, an open-access facility for all MIT students, faculty, researchers and external users.
University of Michigan–Augmented Tectonics
Purdue University–Skill-XR
UC Berkeley–InsightXR
https://cto.berkeley.edu/innovation/berkeley-changemaker-technology-innovation-grants/vrtutor
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What the Deck
What the Deck is an exploratory, card-based game that aims to introduce students, faculty and staff of all ages and backgrounds to a wide variety of situations in which established and emerging technologies impact society.