https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon-ring-largest-civilian-surveillance-network-us
since Amazon bought Ring in 2018, it has brokered more than 1,800 partnerships with local law enforcement agencies. These partnerships are growing at an alarming rate.
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more on surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance
Future of AR and VR in Healthcare Education
https://www.healthcaretechoutlook.com/news/future-of-ar-and-vr-in-healthcare-education-nid-2376.html
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more on immersive and healthcare in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive+healthcare
Touching Holograms
https://medium.com/microsoft-design/blank-story-e286ac1fb11a
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more on HOlolens in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hololens
iPhone Locked to Owner: How to Unlock in 5 Easy Steps
- improve immersion
- improve comfort and social acceptability (e.g. glasses versus goggles)
- increase value of what you can accomplish
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more on Hololens in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hololens
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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more on AR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality
Medicine & Mindfulness: How VR Training Is Helping Healthcare Through The Pandemic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2021/02/19/medicine–mindfulness-how-vr-training-is-helping-healthcare-through-the-pandemic/
Virtual Reality (VR) training tools are here to help, ensuring that healthcare professionals can be trained remotely, immersively, and more thoroughly than traditional methods for both front-line medicine and in specialist procedures.
use of wearable contact tracing sensors or VR training tools in the education sector and in an high-pressure medical context
Their VR platform uses personalized prediction software and “gamification and varied content formats to engage users and embed knowledge”, and has been used to “deliver typically labor-intensive training quickly and at scale”
“VR enables medics to immerse themselves in these infrequent scenarios, and can reduce skill fade by 52% and improve learning retention rates by up to 75% (compared to 10% for traditional methods),”
Simulated virtual learning can also ease the psychological burden of notoriously intensive medical training and place more emphasis on wellbeing.
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
How to blow the whistle on an academic bully
Standing up to a persecutor is tough, particularly if they are your supervisor. But you can take steps to report abuse and protect yourself.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01252-z