Archive of ‘AR’ category

AR for Remote Access and Skill Retention

Manufacturers set the pace in the Augmented Reality race

Vuforia® Expert Capture Technology and Microsoft’s HoloLens glasses were used to create a virtual guide hosted in the cloud and then accessed by engineers in a number of factories across the UK

Industry has been searching for some time for an answer to an ageing workforce and the worrying scenario of traditional engineering skills being potentially lost forever.

AR can be used to record skills as engineers are performing them, saving them in the Cloud for generations to come – almost like a virtual technical library.

Importantly, these instructions can be delivered at the point of use, which has been proven to speed up learning.

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Augmented Scepticism

<Palermos, S. O. (2017). Augmented Skepticism: The Epistemological Design of Augmented Reality. https://www.academia.edu/28594152/Augmented_Skepticism_The_Epistemological_Design_of_Augmented_Reality

epistemology should play an active role in the design of future AR systems and practices.

its users may also be exposed to the serious danger of being unable to tell reality and augmented reality apart.

Most modern augmented reality systems combine the input from hardware
components such as digital cameras, accelerometers, global positioning systems (GPS),
gyroscopes, solid state compasses, and wireless sensors with simultaneous localization and
mapping (SLAM) software

The above examples make it obvious that AR has the potential to permeate and
enrich our everyday lives in a variety of ways. As AR technologies become less intrusive and
more transparent, moving from hand held devices, to AR glasses and finally to contact lenses,
AR will possibly not only penetrate every aspect of our lives but will become a constant,
additional layer to physical reality that users will be practically unable to disengage from.
Short films Sight (https://vimeo.com/46304267) and Hyper-Reality
(https://vimeo.com/166807261) provide good tasters of how the augmented future might
soon look like.

Contrary to other forms of extended
cognitive systems, AR is specifically designed to generate and operate on the basis of unreal
yet deceivingly truth-like mimicries of the external world in a way that users won’t be able to
distinguish augmented images from actual images of the world.

AR therefore has the potential to both extend and distract our organismic epistemic
capacities.

AR developers would have to make sure that all augmentations bear features that would allow them to clearly and immediately stand out from the physical elements in the world without the need of unrealistically burdensome checks on the part of the users. The design of future AR systems should not pose unrealistic demands on the users’ cognitively integrated nature. Reality augmentations should automatically stand out as such, leaving minimal room for confusion or misinterpretation.

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VR in business school

Temple’s business school sees virtual reality as future of online learning

https://www.inquirer.com/business/remote-learning-vr-mba-20210423.html

a finance professor at Temple University and academic director of its online MBA, has tested that belief since March 2020, when he launched the class Fintech, Blockchain and Digital Disruption in a virtual reality, or VR, program.

It took 18 months to research the technology and build the course at a cost upward of $100,000. The finished product was completed with the help of Glimpse Group, a New York-based virtual reality and augmented reality company.

“When I teach classes on Zoom, there’s a disconnect,” Ozkan said. “When we asked students last year to compare their VR experience to Zoom, almost all of them said [VR] is better or much better. Which is why we decided to offer it again this year.”

When the 18 students enrolled in the seven-week accelerated course this semester put on their VR headsets, they entered one of two lecture halls modeled after actual rooms on the Temple campus. Students customize their avatars before the semester.

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Interactive 3D learn and work

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-04-06-how-interactive-3d-is-transforming-the-way-we-learn-and-work

EdSurge recently talked with Linda Sellheim, Education Lead at Epic Games

Interactive 3D is the ability to interact with the digital world the same way you do with the real world. These experiences can take many forms, from dynamic web-based content to immersive VR, AR or MR experiences. You know those realistic simulations of storms you see on the Weather Channel? That’s interactive 3D.

Burning Glass to identify the types of 3D skills needed in the workplace. They found that jobs requiring real-time 3D skills are growing 601 percent faster than the job market overall, and pay 57 percent above the average advertised salary

Imagine building a history museum in Unreal Engine and having students populate the displays. That’s what some classes are doing.

this blog post that includes the new Creator’s Field Guide to Emerging Careers in Interactive 3D.

all educators to check out resources such as Unreal Engine’s Secondary Education Lesson Plans and Games For Change.

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Epic Games and Digital Reality

Epic Games ‘Metaverse’ Completes $1B Funding with $200M from Sony—Developers to Build a Digital Reality

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/259056/20210413/epic-games-metaverse-completes-1b-funding-200m-sony-build-digital-reality.htm

According to Venture Beat, Epic Games has recently had a successful round of funding, raising a sum of $1 billion for its proposed digital reality world

The metaverse idea of connecting all of Epic Games’ titles is an ingenious way of integrating one game after the other, becoming the common ground for all games, each player with their avatars. This highly resembles “Ready Player One’s” OASIS metaverse, which is a digital, virtual, and augmented reality that leads to different online platforms.

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Digital Storytelling and AR in museums

Storytelling and Content presentation with the Virtual Showcase in a museum context

https://www.academia.edu/29362004/Storytelling_and_Content_presentation_with_the_Virtual_Showcase_in_a_museum_context

This paper gives an overview of the Virtual Showcase as an augmented reality display system for museums. It explains about different hardware prototypes, interaction tools as well as several software techniques to utilize the features of the Virtual Showcase. It also presents two case studies, one from paleontology and one from archeology.

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EUROGRAPHICS 2003

Alternative Augmented Reality Approaches: Concepts,Techniques, and Applications

https://www.academia.edu/2742594/Alternative_Augmented_Reality_Approaches_Concepts_Techniques_and_Applications

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on AR in education in this IMS blog
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