Amazon Wants To Beam Augmented Reality Into Your Living Room

Aaron Tilley, Dec 1, 2015 @ 10:42 PM  http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2015/12/01/amazon-wants-to-bring-augmented-reality-into-your-living-room

Amazon has built up a nice little collection of devices at its Palo Alto, Calif.-based hardware division, Lab126.

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Colleges begin to take virtual reality seriously

http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/colleges-virtual-reality-941

the power of VR goes beyond simply recruiting. The University of Michigan uses the technology as a learning tool, and by instituting a virtual reality “cave” they’ve allowed engineering students to interact with virtual structures as they “come together, buckle and collapse.” Instead of relying on physical models—which tend to be large, expensive, and slow to build—a student using the MIDEN VR cave can fly around a virtual structure to study mechanical connections.

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New Horizon Report 2015 K12 Edition

http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/Augmented+Reality

Will Virtual Reality Stake Its Claim in K–12 Classrooms?

by Karen J. Bannan

The Teaching Appeal

Although schools are just beginning to pilot or test virtual reality tools, some early findings suggest that, when districts implement VR:

1. Students engage intently in tasks.

2. Students improve their group interactions.

3. The devices provide opportunities for peer teaching.

4. VR environments can adapt to multiple contexts and disciplines.

The Use of Virtual Reality in K-12 Education

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/wp-admin/post-new.php

 

Virtual Reality a Reality in K12 Classrooms

https://blog.kamihq.com/virtual-reality-a-reality-in-k12-classrooms/

 

More on virtual reality in this IMS blog:

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=virtual+reality&submit=Search