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30
May
2021

Augmented reality windshields

categories: AR

No more driving distractions? Augmented reality windshields coming to Kia, Audi and more could change the way we drive

https://amp-usatoday-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/7427411002

EV6 and Audi Q4 e-tron will be among the first when they arrive in 2022.

Kia’s sibling brand, Hyundai, will also debut an augmented reality windshield on the  2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5.

And General Motors will introduce one on the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq.

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

30
May
2021

Nonfungible tokens NFT

categories: announcement

UC Berkeley Will Auction NFTs for 2 Nobel Prize Patents

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/05/28/uc-berkeley-will-auction-nfts-2-nobel-prize-patents

Nonfungible tokens — called NFTs for short — are units of data stored on the blockchain that are unique and not interchangeable. As NPR recently explained, a $10 bill, which is fungible, could be exchanged for two $5 bills. An NFT is one of a kind, more like a barcode.

The public research university, according to a press release, is auctioning the NFTs for the patent disclosures of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, for which UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; and cancer immunotherapy, for which James Allison shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The university will continue to own the related patents.

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more on blockchain in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=blockchain

29
May
2021

Apple in China

categories: Digital literacy, Digital rights management (DRM), information literacy, information technology, media literacy, technology literacy

Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.amp.html

Two decades ago, as Apple’s operations chief, Mr. Cook spearheaded the company’s entrance into China, a move that helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world and made him the heir apparent to Steve Jobs. Apple now assembles nearly all of its products and earns a fifth of its revenue in the China region. But just as Mr. Cook figured out how to make China work for Apple, China is making Apple work for the Chinese government.

Mr. Cook often talks about Apple’s commitment to civil liberties and privacy. But to stay on the right side of Chinese regulators, his company has put the data of its Chinese customers at risk

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=apple+

24
May
2021

Students and Online

categories: distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, hybrid learning, instructional technology

73 Percent of Students Prefer Some Courses Be Fully Online

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2021/05/13/73-percent-of-students-prefer-some-courses-be-fully-online-post-pandemic.aspx

Cengage‘s Digital Learning Pulse Survey, conducted by Bay View Analytics on behalf of the Online Learning Consortium, WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and Canadian Digital Learning Research Association, polled 1,469 students and 1,286 faculty and administrators across 856 United States institutions

Sixty-eight percent of students were also in favor of some combination of in-person and online courses. On the faculty side, 57 percent said they would prefer teaching hybrid courses post-pandemic — slightly more than those who preferred teaching fully online.

both students and faculty agreed: Roughly two-thirds across the board said they would like to use more tech and digital course materials in the future.

24
May
2021

Augmented Reality Apple iPhone 12 and Delta Airlines

categories: AR

Apple’s big iPhone 12 deal with Delta shows a path to AR

The augmented enterprise is the focal point for Apple and AR.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3616982/apples-big-iphone-12-deal-with-delta-shows-a-path-to-ar.html

Delta Airlines this week dropped the biggest hint of this when it announced deployment of 19,000 iPhone 12s for its in-flight staff

Delta plans to use iPhones to offer immersive training experiences to staffers, featuring video, photos, and AR. Specifically, it plans to use AR to help cabin staff quickly locate where items are stowed – useful for hand luggage but even more useful when attempting to locate a flight’s worth of desserts for the meal.

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

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