What’s on the five-year horizon for K-12 Educational Technology & which trends and technologies will drive educational change? This publication charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies in school communities across the globe. With 15 years of research and publications, the NMC Horizon Project can be regarded as the world’s longest-running exploration…
Category: Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Facebook’s Plan to Take Virtual Reality Mainstream
Facebook announced details on its virtual reality future, with Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) confirming that the Oculus Rift release date will be some time in early 2016. Market analysts offered varied reactions to how Zuckerberg described the expected—gradual—growth of the VR headset. “This is going to grow slowly, like computers and mobile phones when they first arrived,” Zuckerberg…
#VR + #IOT in the #HigherEd Classroom?
VR = Virtual Reality IoT = Internet of Things From medicine to science and engineering, VR and related technologies could soon change teaching and learning. I think Mr. Walter’s November 2nd article in EdTech HigherEd, is forward thinking in his recent observation about the the increased use of Virtual Reality in Higher Education and it’s…
What’s the Difference Between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
What is Augmented Reality Augmented reality is the blending of virtual reality and real life, as developers can create images within applications that blend in with contents in the real world. With AR, users are able to interact with virtual contents in the real world, and are able to distinguish between the two. An…
Why Facebook Bought Oculus Rift
Spoiler Alert: Virtual Reality Could Be The Next Big Thing After Mobile “When you put on the goggles, it’s different from anything I have ever experienced in my life!” Zuckerberg described his first time using the VR headset as revelatory Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly instigated the deal. “Strategically we want to start building…
Oculus Rift (VR) Roller Coaster
(From 2013 beta test) A quick video that gives a pretty good view of the Roller Coaster “virtual world” from the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality (VR) system. Really quite a stomach-churning immersive experience! Related Post: Watch us having fun discovering the experience of Virtual Reality (way back in 2013) in this un-edited video: Oculus Rift Virtual…