Augmented reality turns MIT walls into art installation
Our exclusive report brings you the latest breakthroughs on how virtual and augmented reality technologies revolutionize the education sector.
Tunnels beneath MIT are no longer blank walls leading you to laboratories and empty classrooms. Students have brought a new meaning to the term tunnel vision, introducing The Borderline Mural Project featuring 200 feet of student created art on the tunnel’s walls.
“Walking through the tunnels I thought, ‘This is basically just a blank canvas,’” says Julia Rue, rising senior and Borderline project leader. Rue explained that she was inspired to start the project after she learned many of her classmates practiced art in high school but stopped when they started at MIT… (Read more)
Oculus to install nearly 100 free VR systems throughout California library network
A couple of decades ago, when the internet was still fairly new to the mainstream, libraries and schools often offered the only free access many users had to the emerging platform.
In the same way, by providing high-end VR access to California residents who may not have $1,500 to buy a Rift and a VR-ready PC, Oculus is seeding the VR market by creation legions of new fans who will use VR for everything from gaming to education at their local library… (Read more)
UB’s virtual reality expertise creates simulated classroom environment for aspiring teachers
Two UB education researchers have teamed up to create an interactive classroom environment in which state-of-the-art virtual reality simulates difficult student behavior, a training method its designers compare to a “flight simulator for teachers.”
The new program, already earning endorsements from teachers and administrators in an inner-city Buffalo school, ties into SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher’s call for innovative teaching experiences and “immersive” clinical experiences and teacher preparation… (Read more)
Google Earth teams up with National Geographic to take students on voyages
Using Google’s Cardboard viewer, students can immerse themselves in faraway locations and learn more via rich content embedded in the Expedition.
The company said that it’s about to launch a “self-guided mode” for Expeditions “so anyone can access more than 600 virtual field trips on their own.”.. (Read more)
Military children use virtual reality simulators at STEM workshop
A group of about 23 middle school-aged military children observed cutting-edge military medical science during a June 3–4 workshop held at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. During the workshop the students donned high-tech virtual and augmented reality simulators and tested out revolutionary modular prosthetic limbs and interacted with experts in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math… (Read more)
Stanford football uses Virtual Reality headsets to help them diagnose concussions
For the last two seasons, Stanford has been employing the use of a novel eye-tracking headset that helps monitor concussions and help team doctors to make return-to-play decisions on the sideline. This technology was recently featured by KPIX in San Francisco, which dove deep into the technology and its use… (Read more)
Two immigrant entrepreneurs are creating virtual reunions
It’s a typical country wedding in Mexico, this one taking place in the town of Poza Redonda, in the state of San Luis Potosí. The bride and groom exchange vows and then things get rowdy with a traditional dance, clapping and flashing lights.
But one person attending the wedding — the bride’s older brother — is thousands of miles away, in his living room in Virginia watching the festivities through virtual reality goggles. He couldn’t make the wedding in person, but the video and 3-D goggles immerse him, letting him look up or down and see and hear everything around him as it was recorded… (Read more)
Virtual reality tool aims to change how students learn about Gaspee Affair
Over the weekend the city of Warwick celebrated the 245th anniversary of the burning of the British ship, the HMS Gaspee. Many Rhode Islanders consider it one of the earliest clashes in the American Revolution. Now a group of Brown University students is working to raise the profile of the Gaspee Affair. They’re creating a virtual reality experience aimed at middle and high school students… (Read more)
These glows allow you to play piano in virtual reality
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano keyboard… (Read more)
Are holographic teachers the future of music education?
Teomirn is the world’s first virtual reality piano teacher, which can be projected into your home, classroom, or anywhere you have an instrument set up. Using a HoloLens headset, students can watch the virtual teacher play, sit alongside them, and even watch their technique from over their holographic shoulder… (Read more)
World’s most ambitious VR art platform to launch with: Koons, Abramovic & Eliasson
“In this moment of my career, I have been wondering how to transfer energy from body to body through the use of modern technology,” says Abramovic. “This new VR artwork raises questions about technology’s impact on human empathy through the lens of a pressing issue facing our world: climate change. Changes to the global climate threaten existing ways of living. The project will offer people the chance to empathize and respond to the needs of others affected by this crisis. I am particularly interested in how audiences’ consciousness and energy will be affected by a virtual experience of helping others.” (Read more)
