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VictoryXR K-12 Education
VictoryXR Review: K-12 Education Comes to Life in VR
Immersive and powerful VR educational content library
Metaverse for Higher Education
Hand Tracking UX Design
How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D
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more on haptic in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=haptic
sensation in VR
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More on virtual reality in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality
immersive in corporate
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/company-leaders-your-teams-need-vr-headsets-yesterday-john-duffield/
According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, VR was last featured in the “Slope of enlightenment” in 2017, which is stage 4 out of 5 on the way to mass adoption.
NFTs Non-fungible tokens
An NFT is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos. They are bought and sold online, frequently with cryptocurrency, and they are generally encoded with the same underlying software as many cryptos. are “fungible,” meaning they can be traded or exchanged for one another. They’re also equal in value—one dollar is always worth another dollar; one Bitcoin is always equal to another Bitcoin. Crypto’s fungibility makes it a trusted means of conducting transactions on the #blockchain. NFT has a digital signature that makes it impossible for NFTs to be exchanged for or equal to one another (hence, non-fungible). An NFT is created, or “minted” from digital objects that represent both tangible and intangible items, including:
- Art
- GIFs
- Videos and sports highlights
- Collectibles
- Virtual avatars and video game skins
- Designer sneakers
- Music
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sold his first ever tweet as an NFT for more than $2.9 million. NFTs can have only one owner at a time. Blockchain technology and NFTs afford artists and content creators a unique opportunity to monetize their wares. celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Lindsay Lohan are jumping on the NFT bandwagon, releasing unique memories, artwork and moments as securitized NFTs.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/nft-non-fungible-token/
Non-fungible tokens
EU and China higher ed changes
Interesting summary re Europe strategy in negotiating with China over open … https://t.co/nn9ST1oY7S
— Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) November 21, 2021
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20211119103816587
“Our line is very clear: until we have clear responses from the other side on how these aspects will be treated, we are not going to support our companies through our supporting programmes (such as Horizon) in innovation with Chinese counterparts – whether these are companies or universities or research organisations
modern librarians
education podcasts
https://bryanalexander.org/podcasts/podcasts-im-listening-to-in-november-2021/
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More on podcasts in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Podcasts