08
Jan
2016

virtual reality

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, gamification, gaming, information technology, instructional technology, technology literacy, video

Three really real questions about the future of virtual reality

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/virtual-reality-future-oculus-rift-vr

  1. How mainstream is this technology really going to be?Facebook sees VR as the next big computing platform, but that will depend on it becoming a truly mainstream device
  2. Will VR really be about more than gamesSome of the educational projects already unveiled – the British Museum’s use of VR to transport visitors back to the bronze age; Irish startup VR Education’s VR app based on the Apollo 11 moon landing; David Attenborough’s work with a special VR exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum; and NASA’s PlayStation VR demo of how VR could help its operators practise using robotic arms on the International Space Station – are among the more convincing arguments for modern VR being about more than just games or gimmicks.
  3. Can our bodies and minds really cope with VR?

More on Oculus in this IMS blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=oculus&submit=Search

VR is the future and it’s officially here

http://www.businessinsider.com/vr-is-the-future-2016-1

2 Comments on virtual reality

  1. Plamen Miltenoff
    April 27, 2016 at 5:35 pm (9 years ago)

    MOMA
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BErRUFcjMDE/
    first-ever VR screening as part of this week’s series “#SlitheringScreens: 10 Years of New Frontier at Sundance Institute.” Following a talk by the filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, audience members used virtual reality headsets to experience a 3-D, 360-degree short film about an indigenous elder in the Australian outback who witnessed the British government’s 1950s atomic weapons tests. See a schedule of upcoming screenings at moma.org/film

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