https://medium.com/@segkrg/the-advantages-of-a-digital-twin-virtual-reality-campus-563b77c951cc
Consider these 10things that happen on a digital twin virtual reality campus that cannot happen in a real-world, physical campus:
Expand a human organ and step inside it . (Here similar video with Mark Gill in the SCSU CAVE: https://youtu.be/EGbToEeoDlA?t=74 )
Step into a Star Trek-style transporter and beam up to a starship to learn astronomy on a space walk.Expand the dissectible pig to the size of a school bus and space-walk through the organs and cavities as you learn about anatomy.
View a wooly mammoth skeleton and then step onto a time machine and go back in time 40,000 years to walk among a herd of wooly mammoths.
Travel to the Great Wall of China, stand upon it and learn the history and engineering of this structure — all in the space of one class period.
Select from the world’s greatest paintings and organize an exhibit in a museum — and let every student do this in their own way.
Watch a video about dinosaurs and then watch as the dinosaurs walk out of the screen and into the middle of the classroom.
Learn Spanish language and culture at the Pyramid of the Moon, rather than a four-walled classroom.Learn molecular biology by expanding molecules to the size of a basketball.
Gain a greater understanding of history by stepping back in time to the Roman Colosseum and touring it as a class just as it stood 2500 years ago.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-burning-man-kickstarts-microsofts-social-vr-efforts-scoble/
Lots of words will be typed about how it compares to the real thing. Here, let me save it for you, it doesn’t. Real life is analog, far sharper, far more interesting, and far more fun than anything you can experience in VR. Even for decades to come.
VR is more accessible than real life and, soon, the numbers of attendees will dwarf those who can attend in real life (somewhere around 70,000 attended last year). It is more interactive (and you can navigate it much faster). It is more comfortable for sure. Are these tradeoffs worth not going?
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https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2020/8/eli7174.pdf
Virtual labs simulate the tools, equipment, tests, and procedures used in chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology, and other disciplines.
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VIDEO
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https://ai.umich.edu/blog/mixr-studios-podcast-13-bryan-alexander/
link to the interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iHzgr6vHYlV3OoYcZam6z
virtual reality as a great medium for storytelling
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Jeremy Nelson, Director of XR Initiative and Bryan Alexander
VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. But Ethical and Technical Challenges Remain.
By Jeffrey R. Young Mar 15, 2018
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-03-15-vr-could-bring-a-new-era-of-immersive-learning-but-ethical-and-technical-challenges-remain
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The ACRL Technical Interest Group invites you to join us virtually for two
presentations on
Date: Tuesday, June 23rd
Time: 12 PM (CDT)/1 PM (
Place: Zoom
The following will be 20 minute presentations with a 5 minute question
session:
Cataloging Virtual Reality programming: why and how
Joy DuBose, Assistant Professor, Special Collections Cataloger at Mississippi
State University Libraries
When video games really came to the forefront, there were arguments as to
whether these materials should be offered by libraries and whether or not they
should be cataloged. Now with the appearance of virtual reality (VR), which
has games and programming that are mostly in digital format, these arguments
are returning. Many libraries are questioning whether or not to add this
technology, and whether to catalog it.
While VR has taken off in many ways in the public arena, libraries are
somewhat slower to do so. The Mitchell Memorial Library at Mississippi State
University has embraced VR. Through the library students, faculty, and non-
university affiliates can experience VR on several different systems. However,
questions were soon raised on how exactly do we catalog VR programming? This
presentation examines the question of should these materials be cataloged, the
different questions that arose during the process, and the workflow that was
created to catalog these materials.
Register in advance for this webinar:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar.
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