NCompass Live - Jan. 25, 2017 http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/ Virtual and augmented reality devices have been hyped for decades, but the technology is finally starting to reach its full potential. In this presentation, we’ll talk about the differences between VR and AR, discuss the plethora of VR devices, and explore how to utilize them in a library setting. Presenter: Craig Lefteroff, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission.

1. The Future
OF VIRTUAL REALITY
FOR YOUTH SERVICES

2. Our Agenda
 What is it?
 Apps
 Hardware and platforms
 Problems and possible solutions

3. 3 APPROACHES
 Virtual reality
• Headsets
• You don’t see the “real
world”
• Immersive

4. 3 APPROACHES
 Augmented reality
• You see the real
world
• Digital objects are
overlaid onto real
objects
• Smartphones &
tablets, not just
headsets

5. 3 APPROACHES
 Mixed reality
• Lets users see the real world,
but adds virtual objects (or
vice versa)
• Anchors those objects so that
they can be treated as “real”

6. AR
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8. SNAPCHAT
http://giphy.com/gifs/3o6Zt1x84ioChUv2Bq
WORLD LENSES – overlay 3D effects onto your
surroundings, not just faces

10. Other AR apps
BLIPPAR
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shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

11. Other AR apps
LAYAR

12. Other AR apps
LibrARi
• How does it work?
• The Legend of Zelda

13. Other AR apps
SHELVAR

14. Other AR apps
Archive LAPL
Augment AR

15.  WIKITUDE
DIY AR
 AR TOOLKIT

16. Mixed/Merged Reality

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xVDM3DSnU

18. Mixed/Merged Reality

19. Intel’s Project Alloy
 Wireless
 Not a lot of info about the headset
yet—we don’t even know if it will look
like this in the final version.
 The developer kit arrives this year, but
“the public probably won’t see this
thing for sale for a long time.”

20. Microsoft’s HoloLens
 $3,000 (developers)
 Windows Holographic

21. The “Big Three”
 Oculus Rift
 HTC Vive
 Playstation VR
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22. JOB SIMULATOR for PlayStation VR
FANTASTIC CONTRAPTION

23. VR
GOOGLE CARDBOARD
 Cheap
 Lots of decent apps—some device-specific

24. VR
VIEW-MASTER
 Released this fall
 Smartphone mount can accommodate
almost any device
 Multiple headphone jacks
 Binocular-like focus dial to accommodate a
wider range of vision.

26. • Google Pixel
• Moto Z
• SOON: Huawei, ASUS, ZTE

27. MORE GOOGLE
Available on Lenovo’s Phab 2
Pro and Asus’s ZenFone AR

29. Potential Problems
 LATENCY – the difference between your head’s movements and the
images of the screen changing (motion sickness)
 VERGENCE – Our eyes converge to look at close objects and diverge to
look at distant objects
 ACCOMODATION – The lenses in your eyes focus on objects that are very
near while distant objects in the background become fuzzy.

30. FIGHTING VR SICKNESS

31. Gartner Hype Cycle
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3412017