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Future Interfaces Group
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More on haptics in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=haptics
Facebook, Microsoft, Meta
Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings
Microsoft and Meta are on a collision course for metaverse competition By Tom Warren@tomwarren Nov 2, 2021, 11:00am EDT
Microsoft Mesh always felt like the future of Microsoft Teams meetings, and now it’s starting to come to life in the first half of 2022. Microsoft is building on efforts like Together Mode and other experiments for making meetings more interactive, after months of people working from home and adjusting to hybrid work.
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Facebook wants to build a metaverse. Microsoft is creating something even more ambitious
Rather than ruling one metaverse, Microsoft wants its Mesh platform to be the glue that holds a multiverse of many worlds together.
Microsoft has been developing its own take on the metaverse through Mesh for several years now in conjunction with the launch of its Hololens AR headset.
Microsoft connects people across any device (smartphones, laptops, headsets, etc.) into shared spaces where they can all interact, no matter how they may have dialed in.
Microsoft imagines Teams as a prototype for the metaverse, where companies can set up their own spaces. Rather than rule its own metaverse as Meta/Facebook aspires to, Microsoft sees its role with Mesh in providing the foundational glue that helps hold a multiverse of worlds together. This is not just a philosophical view on technology. Microsoft’s Mesh is built to allow companies to use APIs, much like apps can on the iPhone today, to help a company build its metaverse and have a persistent identity across all these metaverses.
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more on metaverse in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
H5P Virtual Tour plugin
categories: VR
A very low lift project that I’ve used in First Year seminar courses is the development of 360 virtual tours.
Here is one example:
Students use 360 Cameras (Insta360 One X) which are very user friendly, and create the tours using WordPress and the H5P Virtual Tour plugin.
Dan Bennett (he/him)
Senior Educational Media Producer
Learning, Research & Technology
Smith College, Neilson Library 009H
Northampton, MA 01063
(413) 585-3473 | dbennett@smith.edu
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=H5p
AR in cars is reality
categories: AR
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Extended Reality Higher Education
Extended Reality Tools Can Bring New Life to Higher Education
Zoom, Teams, Skype, and FaceTime all became daily fixtures, and many of us quickly became fatigued by seeing our colleagues, students and far-away loved ones almost exclusively in 2D. Most video conferencing solutions were not designed to be online classrooms. what is missing from the current video platforms that could improve online teaching: tools to better facilitate student interactions, including enhanced polling and quizzing features, group work tools, and more.
While universities continue to increase in-person and HyFlex courses, hoping to soon see campuses return to normalcy, there is mounting evidence that the increased interest in digital tools for teaching and learning will persist even after the pandemic.
We should move beyond 2D solutions and take advantage of what extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) have to offer us.
Professor Courtney Cogburn created the 1,000 Cut Journey, an immersive VR research project that allows participants to embody an avatar that experiences various forms of racism. Professor Shantanu Lal has implemented VR headsets for pediatric dentistry patients who become anxious during procedures. At Columbia Engineering, professor Steven Feiner’s Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab explores the design and development of 2D and 3D user interfaces for a broad range of applications and devices. Professor Letty Moss-Salentijn is working with Feiner’s lab to create dental training simulations to guide dental students through the process of nerve block injection. Faculty, students and staff at Columbia’s Media Center for Art History have created hundreds of virtual reality panoramas of archaeology projects and fieldwork that are available on the Art Atlas platform.
In spring 2020, a group of Columbia students began to build “LionCraft,” a recreation of Columbia’s Morningside campus in Minecraft. Even though students were spread out around the world, they still found creative and fun ways to run into each other on campus, in an immersive online format.
Bank Of America TVR Soft Skills Training
Bank Of America Turns To VR For Soft Skills Training
Created by The Academy—Bank of America’s award-winning onboarding, training, and development organization—the program is part of the company’s commitment to providing the most cutting-edge professional development tools to their employees to ensure they are successful in their roles.
400 employees using the Oculus Go. According to the report, 97% of the participants left feeling more confident in their abilities.
In a 2019 article published by the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR), research showed that success in your job and your ability to grow in that role was based on 15% hard skills and 85% soft skills.
Haptic versus gesture
categories: VR
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More on haptic in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=haptic