Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Beyond thrilled to finally share a sneak peek of our Facebook partnership with Ray-Ban! Our first smart glasses will launch next year, and that’s just the beginning… The future will be a classic and it’s coming in 2021 😎 pic.twitter.com/l9992ZQGoy
— Hugo Barra (@hbarra) September 16, 2020
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Virtual reality has proven to provide successful social and physical benefits to those 65 and older.
Physical movement is essential as we age, and different virtual reality programs encourage older adults to play fun and safe games that allow us to move our legs, arms, feet and hands.
Other research is showing that virtual reality can even ease the nerves when it comes to touring other retirement facilities. Some virtual reality programs are designed for mom and dad to tour a facility in the comfort of their own home before possibly seeing it in person.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=seniors
When is fact-checking more rhetoric than fact
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/chronicle-review/2021-07-29
“Twitter’s enforced brevity privileges the factoid,” for instance, and outlets like Vox have “built a brand around a house style that blends earnest righteousness and complacent, self-satisfied wonkery.” (https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-of-the-pedantic-professor/)
“fact-grubbing” rhetoric, not fact-checking; their purpose was to persuade, not to explain, and at their worst they shaded into propaganda.
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https://www.edmchicago.com/embrace-vr-in-education/
Is it worth investing in education with the use of virtual reality?
Yes, we would like to encourage you to find and learn more applications thanks to which you can increase your knowledge. Even if you do not have special equipment in the form of a powerful PC and the entire VR set, maybe your phone supports virtual reality. You can check it using such an application for android phones – link at mazerspace.com.
To sum up – VR can be interesting and useful at the same time. It all depends on how you use the potential of virtual reality.
Research conducted by scientists from the University of Maryland shows that the use of VR goggles allows you to absorb as much as 90 percent. information, and learning by means of a computer – only 78 percent. (https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4155)
According to analysts from MarketsandMarkets, the value of the global virtual reality market in 2018 amounted to USD 7.9 billion. It is expected to rise to $ 55.7 by 2024. with an average annual growth rate of 33.5 percent.
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peer review here:
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Varjo XR-3 Hands-on: Varjo’s Headsets Keep Getting Better, Even as They Get Cheaper
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=vr+headset
Voice control, gesture control and myopia friendly, Rokid Air enhances your AR experience and takes games & movies to a whole new level
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/45971229/rokid-air-4k-ar-glasses-with-voice-control-ai
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more on AR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=augmented+reality
“The goal of ALOE is to develop new artificial intelligence theories and techniques to make online education for adults at least as effective as in-person education in STEM fields,” says Co-PI Ashok Goel, Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing and the Chief Scientist with the Center for 21stCentury Universities at Georgia Tech
Research and development at ALOE aims to blend online educational resources and courses to make education more widely available, as well as use virtual assistants to make it more affordable and achievable. According to Goel, ALOE will make fundamental advances in personalization at scale, machine teaching, mutual theory of mind and responsible AI.
The ALOE Institute represents a powerful consortium of several universities (Arizona State, Drexel, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Harvard, UNC-Greensboro); technical colleges in TCSG; major industrial partners (Boeing, IBM and Wiley); and non-profit organizations (GRA and IMS).
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more on AI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+education
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more on Metaverse in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse