A quick introduction to virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality for education.

1. TEACHING WHEN TECHNOLOGY HACKS REALITY
2018

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.

4. VR: historical sketch
http://kotaku.com/the-man-whos-keeping-1990s-virtual-reality-machines-ali-1778990894

5. VR tech now

6. VR tech now
• VR files or apps
• High end headsets
• Low-end Cardboard
• Interaction tools
• Gestures
• Capture devices: scanners,
cameras

7. VR tech now

8. VR tech now

9. VR tech now

10. Augmented reality

11. 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.

12. Augmented reality
A spectrum:
•QR codes
•Location-targeted
services (Google
Maps, Yelp)
•Superimposed visuals

13. Augmented reality
http://www.instantreality.org/itacitus/

14. Augmented reality

15. Gaming
• Pokemon Go, Ingress, Zombies Run!
https://www.wired.com/2011/09/augmented-reality-zombies-run-augmented-audio/

16. VR+AR=MR

17. 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. https://hololens.reality.news/news/microsoft-shows-off-rare-images-early-hololens-prototy

19. https://twitter.com/matinassi/status/977334374357024770

20. More MR
Hololens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKUoZxNCl
A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0Psyu
A
Magic Leap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0-
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0x
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21. VR/AR/MR futures
• 3d cinema or the next Web
• Headset->eyewear->contacts?
• Real-time translation
• Vanishing keyboards
• AR public art

22. Pedagogies
Visualization
•VR: hard to access content
•“ “ visualize “
•Creative work
•Safe mistake zone
•Empathy

23. Pedagogies
https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/

24. Pedagogies
Dalgarno Lee 2010

25. Pedagogies
• Spatial awareness
• Difficult learning tasks
• Motivation and delight
-Dalgarno and Lee 2010

26. Pedagogies
Visualization
•AR: setting awareness
•Animating textbooks
(http://www.hitl.washington.ed
u/projects/scripps/)
•Students making

27. Augmented reality
http://www.instantreality.org/itacitus/

28. Pedagogies
Gaming
•Community-based
•Location- “
•Creative

29. Pedagogies
MR?
•Mixture of these
•Office work

30. Pedagogies
MR?
•Mixture of these
•Office work

31. Pedagogies
Storytelling
•Setting
•Viewpoint centrality
•Power of sound

32. Socialization
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hagengraf/30508143692/

33. Pedagogies
Socialization in Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=MqAGl2JmH4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=YuIgyKLPt3s

34. Research

35. Support issues
Consuming
•Discovery – discipline;
publishers
•Access to hardware – equity,
spaces
•Accessibility

36. Support issues
Producing
•Huge computation challenge
•Work with staff
•Connect w/maker movement
•Hype cycle potential

37. VR/AR/MR futures
• 3d cinema or the next Web
• Headset->eyewear->contacts?
• Real-time translation
• Vanishing keyboards
• AR public art

38. http://futureofeducation.us