AR Lenovo
categories: AR
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Archive of ‘technology’ category
Badging Blockchain
categories: badges, Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, gaming, instructional technology
LinkedIn’s 2020 list of skills in most demand includes these soft skills at the very top:
- Creativity
- Persuasion
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
And these hard skills at the very top:
- Blockchain
- Cloud computing
- Analytical reasoning
- Artificial intelligence
Further steps have been taken independently by universities that are utilizing blockchain technology to disseminate transcripts containing rich detail and documentation not available in the traditional paper document.
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cybersecurity at universities
Massive security breach at US universitieshttps://t.co/rJgEan3ygB
— Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) April 5, 2021
https://dorper.me/articles/unileak.aspx
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Snap AR
categories: AR
Snap is reportedly working on AR Spectacles and a selfie drone
Verizon 5G Dreamscape
categories: VR
Verizon taps Dreamscape Immersive for VR content for 5G
Verizon and Dreamscape Learn will form a 5G innovation lab to develop immersive VR learning experiences for various education levels and environments. And as part of the partnership, Verizon Ventures has taken an equity stake in Dreamscape.
Tami Erwin, the CEO of Verizon Business, said in a statement that Dreamscape shows that innovation on top of 5G can lead to powerful and complex VR experiences and simulations using lower-cost, tetherless VR hardware. Before the pandemic, Dreamscape operated five VR entertainment centers in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and I went through a VR experience for How to Train Your Dragon.
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Louvre museum collection online
categories: VR
Louvre museum makes its entire collection available online
As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world’s most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures.
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TokoToko
categories: AR
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Niantic AR goggles
categories: AR
Niantic has been a fairly active investor in the augmented reality hardware space, so there is also the possibility that they’ve done a branding partnership with a startup on a project, but this cryptic image crop is certainly making it look like they’re showcasing a device with first-party branding. There’s also the potential that this is a product in the “smart glasses” category that doesn’t include a display but focuses on building audio or camera functionality into a pair of glasses. Niantic has previously announced that they’ve been working with Qualcomm to help define their reference design for their XR hardware platform.
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Facebook, Apple and Niantic Bet People Are Ready for Augmented-Reality Glasses
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AR contact lenses
categories: AR
Mojo Vision Details Low-Power Chips for Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
A millimeter-scale microLED display that fits onto a contact lens to provide augmented reality is, frankly, amazing, but for it to be useful it needs to know what to display. Last month at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, augmented reality contact lens startup Mojo Vision in Saratoga, Calif., reported new details of the image chip and image processing circuits that tell their display what to paint onto your retina.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality
Google’s New Career Certificates
categories: badges, instructional technology
How Google’s New Career Certificates Could Disrupt the College Degree
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/inside-googles-plan-to-disrupt-college-degree-exclusive.html
Each of the new certificate programs is available on the online course platform Coursera, which works with universities and organizations like Google to offer courses, certifications, and degrees in various subjects. Students will need to enroll with Coursera to take the new certificate programs.
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