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Here’s one thing Google and Microsoft agree on (and they’re right)
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-and-microsoft-embrace-ar-over-vr-2016-4
Virtual reality, like the new Facebook Oculus and HTC Vive, completely immerse you inside a computer generated world. It’s like being inside a 360-degree video game, or movie, or computer-generated simulation.
according to a report in The Information today, Google’s long-term bet is on augmented reality. The company is making not one but several follow-ups to Glass, and has a project called “Tango” that aims to outfit smartphones with computerized “eyes” that can map a 3D space.
More on augmented reality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=augmented&submit=Search
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-hololens-explained-how-it-works-and-why-its-different/
Microsoft’s HoloLens prototype has all the innards of a computer built directly into the headset. That means no cords or even a smartphone required.
Just as VR rivals Oculus (owned by Facebook) and Google are trying to reimagine virtual experiences with their head-worn devices, Microsoft wants us to imagine a world without screens, where information merely floats in front of you.
2022 UI design trends guide
Minimalism, Claymorphism, Brutalism and a look into the future of NFT, VR and Metaverse
https://uxdesign.cc/2022-ui-design-trends-guide-22ddc386557b
- Minimalism and simplification
- Brutalism (and return of the flat)
- Glassmorphism and glass inspired elements
- Aurora backgrounds
- Holographic/Neon
- Eco-conscious “cardboard” style
- Wild typography
- Claymorphism 3D
- NFT’s and democratisation of art
- A glimpse into VR and Metaverse
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more on UI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=user+interface
How Virtual Reality Can Deliver Real Results in The Classroom
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/how-virtual-reality-can-deliver-real-results-in-the-classroom
https://psichologyanswers.com/library/lecture/read/3924-what-is-dales-cone-of-learning-theory
Sweden launches ‘Psychological Defence Agency’ to counter propaganda from Russia, China and Iran
The new agency is tasked with countering disinformation and boosting the population’s resilience in the face of possible influence operation
https://www.mpf.se/en/
The agency’s main mission is the coordination and development of agencies’ and other actors’ activities within Sweden’s psychological defence.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3383c0a2-6d94-11ec-a1b8-3009dadbed4f
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2022/01/05/sweden-launches-psychological-defense-agency-to-counter-disinformation/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/04/sweden-launches-psychological-defence-agency-counter-complex/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/04/congress-could-help-prevent-another-jan-6-data-privacy-law-say-campaigners
“Facebook’s business model has evolved into social engineering via psychological warfare,” she declared. “The platform weaponizes user data to fuel algorithmic manipulation in order to maximize ad sales—not just for products, but for ideas like the disinformation that led to the conspiracy theories associated with the January 6 Capitol attack.”
“One thing is clear: Facebook and the other digital platforms that rely on an extractive business model will not change on their own,” the letter states. “Congress needs to step in.”
“The secretive collection, sale, and algorithmic manipulation of our personal data by platforms like Facebook must end,” he said. “It is a primary driver of the virality of the misinformation, hate speech, and online radicalization that people across the political spectrum are worried about.”
The Metaverse as the new frontier of capitalism
https://medium.com/@connectingtotheworld/the-metaverse-as-the-new-frontier-of-capitalism-639c9494634
Baudrillard’s work from1981, Simulacra and Simulation
Geyh, Leebron, F., & Levy, A. (1998). Postmodern American fiction : a Norton anthology (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_SCS/qoo6di/alma990011637720104318
money and gaming are only the first of being completely pushed into a new all encompassing ‘reality’ of its own.
2021 also popularized the Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) — private property transferred to virtual reality. If on a first level a photo or film keep certain relation to the real, a NFT is a second level of dematerialization of our world and perceived ‘reality’. It simulates, in a virtual world (per se already a simulacrum), the simulacrum of an image/photo/video — and, as if magically, it acquires ‘value’ and it is deemed proprietary.
The future decade’s pressures are more and more on the deterioration of what is left of the real world — climate change, pandemics, automation of work, decreasing populations (first in the West, then in the rest of the world), and scarce resources. The work that produces material things were/are the first to be automated — first in agriculture, then manufacturing and now finally services. In such a decadent material world, continuous growth would not be possible anymore — but with virtual ones
There is never enough data.
super fast internet (5G), increasing data centers, quantum computing, health trackers on human bodies, machine-brain interfaces, internet of things… The goal is for the AI to know how to reproduce material things in a virtual setting.
The COVID-19 pandemic probably accelerated this ‘metaversing’ of reality in many years.
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more on metaverse in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
The Flourishing, Surprising, And Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching
The Flourishing, Surprising, And Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching
the billion dollar+ market for online coaching. It’s an amazingly successful, fast-growing space with four distinct categories.
- Coaching on-demand, driven by AI matching,
- Leadership development for all, democratizing coaches for everyone,
- Wellbeing, mental, and behavioral health – psychologists selected for you,
- General coaching for training – coaches for sales, service, tech, and other jobs.
The biggest players in this market today are BetterUp, Torch, CoachHub, SoundingBoard, Spring Health, and Lyra.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/coaches-and-presidents-are-robbing-us
There are now significant numbers of administrators in America’s colleges and universities who are being paid, in real dollars, more than the highest-paid university president was receiving when I was an undergraduate, in the early 1980s — in quite a few cases, many multiples more.
he outrageous athletics salaries can even seem to justify the administrative overpay. By a kind of perverse psychological effect, paying a college football coach $10 million per year makes paying a university president $1.5 million, a provost $800,000, and various vice provosts and vice chancellors $500,000 each seem positively parsimonious by comparison.
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https://www.facebook.com/Interfacultyorganization/posts/2940666006209784
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed
a new paper in Applied Cognitive Psychology….
231 student participants to watch two YouTube videos (one on real estate appraisals and the other on the Roman Empire) at normal speed, 1.5x speed, 2x speed or 2.5x speed. They were told to watch the videos in full screen mode and not to pause them or take any notes. After each video, the students took comprehension tests, which were repeated a week later. The results were clear: the 1.5x and 2x groups did just as well on the tests as those who’d watched the videos at normal speed, both immediately afterwards and one week on. Only at 2.5x was learning impaired.
When the team surveyed a separate group of UCLA students, they found that a massive 85% usually watched pre-recorded lectures at faster than normal speed. However, 91% said they thought that normal speed or slightly faster (1.5x) would be better for learning than 2x or 2.5x. These new results certainly suggest that this isn’t right: double-time viewing was just as good as normal viewing.
While 2x viewing was fine for learning about the material in their studies — real estate appraisals and the Roman Empire — perhaps it might not work for more complex subject matter; again, only more research will tell.
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more on 2x in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=2x
Matt Rosoff Apr. 4, 2016, 8:02 PM