Metaversities VR classes
Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3798694340237342/
Oculus Quest 2 plays a VictoryXR app ($24.99) where you can cut the pig for not gastronomical purposes (see pic below)
(watch the video)
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also a Shark dissection simulator
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6826504955696939008-YUF2
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more on simulations in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=simulations
Zuckerbergs’ hording the market with Oculus will further slow the wide acceptance of immersive
Full report here:
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/xr-headset-shipments-almost-triple-yoy-q1-2021/
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more on VR in this IMS blog
Oculus Quest 2 is Getting Multi-User Accounts and App Sharing Next Month
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more on FB decision for Quest in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oculus+quest
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oculus-quest-education-dave-dolan/
The Go had to be paired with a phone to enable it to work. How can that possibly be an option in a school with many dozens of headsets? Content had to either go through the Oculus Go Store, which is being shut down at this very moment, or side-loaded through an odd “Developer Mode” access, which is extremely difficult when dealing with large numbers of headsets. Even something as mundane as printing the serial number of that VR device on the headstrap, which can easily be mixed up with other headsets, is a troubling and odd choice to make. Those serial numbers are very important when bulk loading content onto a number of devices at a time, which is the only way they can be managed by school IT departments, and once again shows a lack of understanding of the needs from within schools.
Of course, there is also the elephant in the room… Facebook.
This mandatory attachment to a for-profit, social media behemoth, currently facing antitrust litigation [ Facebook Halts Sale of Rift & Quest in Germany Amid Regulatory Concerns ] should be reason enough to seriously question its inclusion into an academic institution.
Personal identifiability of user tracking data during observation of 360-degree VR video ]
Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that some have come to call “shadow contact information.”
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more on quest in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oculus+quest
The Oculus Quest 2 can now be jailbroken in order to remove the facebook account requirement from r/gadgets
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more on Oculus Quest 2 in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=quest
https://www.digitalbodies.net/vr-news/oculus-quest-2-review-the-best-vr-headset-almost/
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more on Oculus Quest in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oculus+quest