Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Education

With virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), we are on the cusp of the next wave of the Digital Revolution. As we reimagine education in the digita

Instructional technologists from Duke University and North Carolina State offer their advice on introducing virtual and augmented reality on campus.

Colleges and universities experimenting with augmented and virtual reality will have to rethink their current data center designs.

Augmented learning is defined as an on-demand learning technique where the learning environment adapts to the needs and inputs from learners [1]. Broadly speaking, "environment" here does not have to be constrained into the physical learning environment such as classroom, but could refer to such learning environment as digital learning environment, through which learners can stimulate discovery and gain greater understanding.

By Cori Coburn-Shiflett - The latest AR game sensation is an opportunity for educators to connect with their students via game-based learning.

The mythical creatures are about to invade the real world - and you'll catch them with your smartphone down your street and on famous landmarks.

Instructional technologists from Duke University and North Carolina State offer their advice on introducing virtual and augmented reality on campus.

Ball State University has been exploring virtual reality since the early days of Second Life. CT talks with Vice President for Information Technology Phil Repp about how our hyper reality has changed.

The release of an augmented reality version of a two decades-old video game just over a week ago has created a rolling global phenomenon. It may also represent a watershed moment in the development of the various strands of virtual reality.

The launch of Pokémon Go in the US, Australia and New Zealand on July 6 has produced an extraordinary response from consumers. In the US, it had within days more than 20 million active users, making it the biggest mobile game in US history.

While the application of the augmented reality, or mixed reality, technology that underpins the game is relatively crude, the remarkable levels of initial acceptance could make it another of those “iPhone moments’’ that presage mass acceptance of a new technology.

If that were the case, then it has implications for a wide range of consumer-facing businesses, as well as software, hardware and telecommunications companies. In fact, the augmented reality/virtual reality technologies have the potential to transform, not just B2C interactions, but business more broadly.

Pokémon Go is a simple example of complex technology. Augmented reality (AR) involves overlaying visual imagery and sounds — virtual material — over the real world surrounding the user. Its sibling technology, virtual reality (VR), is quite different because it creates completely virtual environments and interactions.

A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.