Mixed Reality

Virtual Reality & Worlds

100″ Multi touch screen with Second Life from junhee, yeo on Vimeo.

This group will meet twice a month virtually - initially via Adobe Connect, then as the Cobalt environment matures within a Cobalt environment.

The groups goals will be to:

(1) Establish 10 “pilot” lessons for Edusim and the classroom interactive whiteboard that address specific K-12 math, science, language arts, or social studies standards

(2) Establish a framework for a web based shared repository of user generated lessons.

(3) Identify key functions and features that will make Edusim - Cobalt more capable for the K-12 classroom teacher.

If you are interested in participating in this advisory group please email Rich White at rich.white@greenbush.org with your intent and I will forward you meeting times and dates.

Best Regards !

Rich

http://edusim3d.com

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(1) 700 mhz auction - providers opening up their networks (past labs posts - [rich.greenbush.us])

(2) “gPhone” Android runs the new phone (Linux on the low end)

(3) “Touch & multi-touch” starts in the phone - ends up everywhere - tables spawn a new life !

(4) Small powerful cheap “mini-laptops” - roll over, start to crawl [eeepc.asus.com]

(5) If its not mobile - its immersive (or its convenient)

The Virtual Autopsy Table from NorrköpingsVisualiseringscenter on Vimeo.

Edusim:

Dr_Manhattan @RichWhite Mouse & keyboard are in my humble opinion the biggest albatross on any computer. When we go voice recognition & touch control wow

JeffLowe @dr_manhattan @solidsmack @richwhite future tech interface = magic-like technomage wave of hand and concentrated thought

@SolidSmack …. Virtual touch huh …. they are catching on ! …. Maybe we can get him to show http://tinyurl.com/2ccbtf

RichWhite And some day the surface will not only react to our touch (like today) but to the 3D content being displayed ! http://tinyurl.com/y8tavp8

“… AdobeAIR & native code working together”

Perhaps this is a potential platform for “Universal Virtual World HUD”  !

… the dual window user interface to seam FLASH and the virtual world browser.

Air developers want to work on this one with me?

Immersive Touch is defined as the direct manipulation of 3D virtual environment objects using single or multi-touch surface hardware. Coined first to describe and define the principles associated with Edusim. Now immersive touch is taking on a broader focus and meaning with the broader adaption of surface and touch driven hardware such as the Ipone, Ipod Touch, and a growing list of other hardware.

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… Computing, as we know it, is on the verge of a transformation. The input devices of yesteryear finally look ready to be replaced by methods that are not based on technologies that are decades (the mouse) or even centuries (the keyboard) old.It won’t happen right away, but it is starting to happen already. We just need devices like the ones listed above to serve as gateway drugs to touch.

A great read !

Via eschoolnewsImagine you’re back in school, and you’re learning about the human body. You open your book and see the flat image of a skeleton on your page. You imagine what it must really look like and try to study as best you can. Now, imagine you’re a student today. … That’s where the imagination stops. Thanks to new technology developments in projection and filming, students soon will be able to see the human body and other complex images, projected up close and in three dimensions. Welcome to the real education of the future.
3-D images floating out of screens, and kids in lightweight glasses with their jaws dropping open, might sound like science fiction–but in less than a year, school across the country will be piloting 3-D projectors to give all students, and especially those who are visual learners, a chance to fully understand the curriculum.

Over the last six months, through a series of interviews with people from around the globe, I have been mapping out some of the major developments in this field. The trouble is that presently, technological advances are happening so fast, some days, in this area, that 12 hours can make all the difference between one exponential breakthrough and another - the field of virtual worlds is moving so fast!By next year the technology for Virtual Worlds will be in the browser and at that point they will become mainstream - already firms such as 3DI are going down that route and others such as RealXtend are working on making it possible to interconnect several different types of Immersive Environment to enable the eventual building of what is termed, a hypergrid, and even more recently there is talk of a Universal World Web Client WebHud. There are exact parallels, here, to the construction of the early World Wide Web.

So let me take you on a journey with the help of a few of the main players in the United States, Canada and the UK and see and listen to their stories and reflect on why so many people are putting so much effort into building this vision… 

Read the rest of this amazing post here !

Thoughs?