Virtual Reality (VR), a simulated computer environment in three dimensions, is becoming more popular for gaming, movies, and education. According to CoSpaces Edu, their creative platform “complements traditional teaching methods by immersing students into a world where they can create, consume and connect with the curriculum on a completely new level, even through the revolutionary visual mediums of Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR).” Take what you learn here to create your own library programs to teach your users how to create meaningful and interactive experiences using VR/AR. In this webinar: - Discover what Virtual Reality is and gain a brief historical summary of it. - Learn and explore the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed realities. - Explore 360° video and photograph technologies to include in a variety of formats. - Create your own 3D/360° environments using CoSpaces EDU to test in Virtual Reality. - Learn how to use CoSpaces EDU as a student and as a teacher.

1. Using CoSpaces Edu to Create Virtual Reality Experiences

2. Agenda:
• Discover what Virtual Reality is and gain a brief historical summary of it.
• Learn and explore the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed
realities.
• Explore 360° video and photograph technologies to include in a variety of
formats.
• Create your own 3D/360° environments using CoSpaces EDU to test in Virtual
Reality.
• Learn how to use CoSpaces EDU as a student and as a teacher.

3. “The library represents a window
to a larger world.”
Barack Obama

4. Learn and explore the differences between
virtual, augmented, and mixed realities.

5. Virtual - not physically existing as such, but
made by software to appear to do so.
Source: http://goo.gl/Mck38L

6. Read more at http://goo.gl/51gGTb
Basically, it is a computer trying to trick
your brain into believing that you are in
a different environment.
A headset displays an image. That image
will be modified when you move your
head and/or interact with it.
What is virtual reality?

7. Origin/Timeline
• Cinematographer Morton Heilig in the 1950’s conceptualized an all
sensory theater experience.
• First Head Mounted Display (HMD) developed in 1961.
• Ivan Sutherland’s “Ultimate Display” concept guided almost all the
developments within the field of virtual reality. In 1966, he built an HMD
that was tethered to a computer system.
• In 1984, Michael McGreevy started exploring human-
computer interface (HCI) designs.
• Jaron Lanier created the term “Virtual Reality” in 1987.
• Facebook acquires Oculus Rift for $2 billion in 2014.
Source: http://goo.gl/em55d

8. Enhancing History and Other Subjects using VR
Unabomber Investigation VR Terra-Cotta Warriors
Pearl Harbor
Medieval Bruges

9. VR Apps: https://goo.gl/U1xaqU

10. Images by Chris Demmons and Chad Mairn

11. HTC Vive Demos at Barnes & Noble Maker Faire

12. Field Trips

13. Reviewing VR Games
Source: https://goo.gl/D2EjCE

14. Doing a pilot study with Springboard VR
Source: https://goo.gl/Lu1KoB

15. Scheduling Widget

16. WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for
rendering interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any
compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins.
Source: https://goo.gl/UdqnLV
https://get.webgl.org

17. WebVR
Image source: https://goo.gl/mZ14xU
https://webvr.info

18. A-FrameA web framework for building virtual reality experiences
https://aframe.io

19. .com
https://gurivr.com/stories/create
GuriVR is actually the A-Frame library. Let’s try an
“intuitive, straightforward way to set up VR
experiences through an editor interface.”

20. Image: http://goo.gl/HkQHlE
Augmented Reality
superimposes elements
over physical reality.
Remember that virtual
reality replaces the real
world with a simulated
one.

21. Popular AR Apps

22. ARCore (formerly Project Tango)
Source: https://goo.gl/7LkoxQ

23. Adding AR Features to Chrome’s Desktop Browsers!
Source: https://goo.gl/vopDg6

24. Adding AR Features in Mobile Chrome Browsers!
“The unique power of AR is to blend digital content with the real world” so
we can “surf the web, find a model, place it in our room to see just how
large it truly is, and physically walk around it.”
~ Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter, Google’s Daydream WebXR team Source: https://goo.gl/vopDg6

25. ARKit (iOS)https://developer.apple.com/arkit/
Follow: https://twitter.com/madewithARKit

26. Google Expeditions AR
https://edu.google.com/expeditions/ar
Sign up for the Expeditions AR Pioneer Program!

27. Best tools for building an augmented reality experience
For Programmers:
Vuforia - Deliver AR innovation with the market-leading Vuforia platform
Kudan AR - Artificial Perception technologies
Wikitude - location-based, marker or markerless AR experiences
For Non-programmers:
Blippbuilder - Transform packaging, ads, magazines, posters and more.
HP Reveal - Adding value to printed content through visual interactivity
Source: https://goo.gl/1yLalY

28. Mixed Reality (MR) starts to blend augmented
and virtual reality with actual reality!

29. HoloLens

30. HoloLens + Skype = Virtual Tours!

31. Magic Leap + Sigur Rós = Tónandi
Read more: https://goo.gl/h95apj

33. Leap Motion designed a $100 augmented reality
headset with super-powerful hand tracking
Source: https://goo.gl/gG7QpA

34. Explore 360° video and photograph technologies
to include in a variety of formats.

35. Google Expeditions
https://edu.google.com/expeditions

36. Google Daydream VR
Source: https://vr.google.com/daydream

37. Source: https://vr.google.com/daydream

38. Use your smartphone in Facebook and experience Mars in 360 degrees.
Check it out! http://goo.gl/WTp9qr

40. Dreams of Dalí: 360º Video
Experience it! https://youtu.be/F1eLeIocAcU
On a computer look for the
navigation dial to move around
inside the video!
Or use Google Cardboard to
move around inside the video!

41. Live 360° Video in Facebook/YouTube
Add Server URL and Stream Key using https://obsproject.com

42. Create your own 3D/360° environments using
CoSpaces to test in virtual reality and learn how to
use CoSpaces EDU as a student and as a teacher.

43. https://cospaces.io/edu

44. CoSpaces Edu and Merge
Cube VR/AR Workshops

45. What is a Merge Cube?
https://mergevr.com/cube

46. More info: https://goo.gl/DNjvk9
Also, check out the MERGE Cube Development Kit: https://dev.mergevr.com/cube

47. Make your own GIANT Merge Cube!
Watch: https://youtu.be/qvo0ENl4CCA

48. • Structure Sensor Bundle
• Merge Cubes
• Merge VR Goggles
• Digitizing project
Source: https://goo.gl/Ee1W2j
Source: https://goo.gl/gcKk65
Video: https://goo.gl/ZhxqzW
Next batch of
workshops!
https://structure.io

49. Creating an Account and Joining a Class
https://cospaces.io/edu

50. Assignments can be viewed

51. CoSpaces Demonstration: Student and Teacher

52. CoSpaces AR
Video: https://goo.gl/wdkfPR
Imagine kids creating their own AR environments to view
inside a blank cardboard box room?!

53. Select Resources
https://forum.edu.cospaces.io/c/tutorials
https://www.costellocorner.com/cospaces-tutorials
https://cospaces.io/api/

54. Want to meet virtually via rumii?

55. http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
@cmairn

56. Contact me!