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25
Mar
2021

Tech Cycle AR VR

categories: AR, Digital literacy, educational technology, technology literacy, VR

Defining a Tech Cycle and Where Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Stand

Defining a Tech Cycle and Where Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Stand

we have started a new tech cycle, with the combination of augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

tech cycle definition:
A tech cycle is usually a 30-35 year-long period that begins with the early commercialization of a group of technologies and ends with the mass adoption and daily use of the technologies by consumers, businesses and organizations.

Predictions For the XR Tech Space
Some predict the rise of AR glasses, leading to the death of smartphones. Others dream of a future where VR replaces the need to go to a physical office, with most meetings taking place in virtual environments. AI will come to life with AI-controlled avatars participating in VR worlds and advising as our own AR advisors and consultants.

We are still in the early innings of this tech cycle, we are looking at the beginning of the adoption of AR, VR, and AI (mass adoption is quite a few years out). This inevitable future has been accelerated by COVID-19, as many have turned to virtual reality and augmented reality as ways to socialize while keeping a social distance.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/25/apple-headset/

19
Mar
2021

Facebook AR

categories: AR, Facebook, VR

Facebook Lab Reveals Direction Of AR Smartglasses

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2021/03/18/facebook-lab-reveals-direction-of-ar-smartglasses/

FRL presented their concept of the “intelligent click,” a series of gestures, some large, some nearly unconscious nerve impulses, detected by a wrist band. This would communicate intent to the operating AI which would know, and anticipate, what the user needs to know, before the user knows they need it.

its goal is a “human centered interface,” which will use preferences and surroundings to infer intent, creating an “ultra low friction” computing experience.
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more on AR in this IMS blog
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10
Mar
2021

practise medicine in VR

categories: AR, VR

Virtual reality has found a new role: Teaching doctors to deal with patients

Medical students and junior doctors are increasingly learning to practise medicine in VR

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/journal-of-applied-instructional-design-jaid/

While COVID is driving clinical learning to VR, the teaching of human anatomy — which typically takes place in the early years of a medical degree — has already shifted to virtual reality in some universities. Case Western Reserve University’s medical school, for example, had been teaching anatomy on campus through content on Microsoft Hololens, rather than by dissecting cadavers as many universities do. Now, with students unable to come onto campus, the university has shipped headsets to students at home so they can continue learning at home.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive

03
Mar
2021

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.

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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

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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

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q2/new-tool-for-virtual-and-augmented-reality-uses-deep-learning.html

UC Berkeley–InsightXR

https://cto.berkeley.edu/innovation/berkeley-changemaker-technology-innovation-grants/vrtutor

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23
Feb
2021

Nreal XR

categories: AR

Nreal (Finally) Expanding to the US This Spring

https://arpost.co/2021/02/22/nreal-finally-expanding-to-the-us-this-spring/amp/

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. The surprisingly sleek and powerful consumer glasses with a $500 price tag

They’ve had huge success in China, but China is a pretty unique market. In late 2019, they expanded to Korea
the company is partnered with Deutsche Telekom and LG Uplus in Germany and Korea respectively, so it’s not too far a stretch to wager that the US branches of those carriers (T-Mobile and LG Electronics) will form at least part of their US distribution channels.

Finch Technologies makes body-tracking wearable devices to serve as controllers for XR applications and experiences including the recently announced FinchRing (this is the promised cherry on top).
The finger-worn hand tracker is designed to enable convenient and discreet 6-degree-of-freedom controls.

  • Tagesschau 2025 – an application based on a German news program that will present, among other features, holographic weather forecasts;
  • A virtual basketball game called DunkaAR;
  • An MR mode for the in-browser MMORPG Dragon Awaken;
  • An augmented reality football streaming application from Magenta Sport.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive

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22
Feb
2021

immersive and goggles

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, information technology, instructional technology, technology literacy

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/20/apple-facebook-microsoft-battle-to-replace-smartphone-with-ar.html

Apple’s working on solving this problem, too, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. The newspaper says that Apple is working with TSMC, its primary processor manufacturer, to develop a new kind of augmented reality display that’s printed directly on wafers, or the base layer for chips.

If Apple does eventually reveal a big leap forward in AR display technology — especially if the technology is developed and owned by Apple instead of a supplier — Apple could find itself with multi-year head-start in augmented reality as it did when the iPhone vaulted it to the head of the smartphone industry.

Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future. High-end iPhones released in 2020 include advanced Lidar sensors embedded in their camera.

Microsoft has invested heavily in these kind of technologies, purchasing AltspaceVR, a social network for virtual reality, in 2018. Before it launched Hololens, it paid $150 million for intellectual property from a smartglasses pioneer.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks the most in public about his hopes for augmented reality. Last year, he said, “While I expect phones to still be our primary devices through most of this decade, at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology.”

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16
Feb
2021

RealMax Qian AR

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, gamification, information technology, instructional technology, mobile learning, technology literacy

RealMax Qian review: wide FOV AR is amazing!

RealMax Qian(乾) is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). These augmented reality devices are manufactured by Chinese company Realmax and are characterized by a very wide field of view. While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100°, for a more immersive augmented experience. This makes the RealMax quite unique in this field, considering that the only other headset that is able to offer such a feature is the Project North Star, which anyway is not standalone like this device.

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more on AR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality

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