Teaching when technology hacks reality: VR, AR, MR.edu
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The document discusses emerging technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, outlining what they are, examples of current applications, and their potential for education. Pedagogical uses discussed include visualization, gaming, storytelling, and socialization. Challenges of supporting these technologies are also addressed, such as access to hardware, large data processing needs, and connecting with other initiatives.
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Teaching when technology hacks reality: VR, AR, MR.edu
- 1. TEACHING WHEN TECHNOLOGY HACKS REALITY Middlebury College -
- 2. Ground rules for today • Please ask questions. We forbid embarrassment. • We are assuming a baseline awareness of being new to VR/AR/MR. • Please contribute thoughts. This is a rapidly developing field!
- 3. VR: introduction Virtual reality (VR) typically refers to computer technologies that use software to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations that replicate a real environment (or create an imaginary setting), and simulate a user's physical presence in this environment.
- 5. VR tech now
- 6. VR tech now
- 7. VR tech now
- 8. VR tech now • VR files or apps • High end headsets • Low-end Cardboard • Interaction tools • Gestures • Capture devices: scanners, cameras
- 10. Augmented reality [A] live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer- generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.
- 11. Augmented reality A spectrum: •QR codes •Location-targeted services (Google Maps, Yelp) •Superimposed visuals
- 14. Gaming • Pokemon Go, Ingress, Zombies Run! https://www.wired.com/2011/09/augmented-reality-zombies-run-augmented-audio/
- 15. VR+AR=MR
- 16. VR+AR=MR Mixed reality (MR), sometimes referred to as hybrid reality, is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. Mixed reality takes place not only in the physical world or the virtual world, but is a mix of reality and virtual reality, encompassing both augmented reality and augmented virtuality.
- 18. VR/AR/MR futures • 3d cinema or the next Web • Headset->eyewear->contacts? • Real-time translation • Vanishing keyboards • AR public art
- 19. Pedagogies Visualization •VR: hard to access content •“ “ visualize “ •Creative work •Safe mistake zone •Empathy
- 22. Pedagogies • Spatial awareness • Difficult learning tasks • Motivation and delight -Dalgarno and Lee 2010
- 23. Pedagogies Visualization •AR: setting awareness •Animating textbooks (http://www.hitl.washington.ed u/projects/scripps/) •Students making
- 31. Research
- 32. Support issues Consuming •Discovery – discipline; publishers •Access to hardware – equity, spaces •Accessibility
- 33. Support issues Producing •Huge computation challenge •Work with staff • Digital Liberal Arts Initiative •Connect w/maker movement •Hype cycle potential
- 34. VR/AR/MR futures • 3d cinema or the next Web • Headset->eyewear->contacts? • Real-time translation • Vanishing keyboards • AR public art