{"id":7810,"date":"2020-09-01T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:48:36","slug":"xr-era-launches-community-on-extended-reality-for-education-research-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/news\/xr-era-launches-community-on-extended-reality-for-education-research-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"XR ERA launches community on Extended Reality for Education &#038; Research in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month the XR ERA project, an initiative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centre4innovation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Centre for Innovation, (opens in a new tab)\">Centre for Innovation,<\/a> Leiden University, had its first meetup with core contributors  who are known as frontrunners. During the meeting the XR ERA team launched their Microsoft Teams channel community to exchange XR knowledge and updated frontrunners on the core concepts and current progress of the XR ERA project. Frontrunners also shared inspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCCWH_CNjM0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VR experiences (opens in a new tab)\">VR experiences<\/a> and addressed questions like \u2018What are good solutions for team building or connecting using XR in a different way than videoconferencing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in joining the growing XR ERA community? Then visit the XR ERA website to check out the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/xrera.eu\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"articles  (opens in a new tab)\">articles <\/a>and to <a href=\"https:\/\/xrera.eu\/subscribe-to-the-xr-era-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"sign up (opens in a new tab)\">sign up<\/a> for the newsletter. The XR ERA website will soon feature a \u2018community updates\u2019 section. Every month from now on there will be a themed community meeting where there will be both discussions and learning opportunities. Get in touch through xrcommunity@sea.leidenuniv.nl if you\u2019re interested in joining the next meetup! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the XR ERA project, an initiative of the Centre for Innovation, Leiden University, had its first meetup with core contributors who are known as frontrunners. During the meeting the XR ERA team launched their Microsoft Teams channel community to exchange XR knowledge and updated frontrunners on the core concepts and current progress of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[271,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ar-vr","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/09\/HoloLens_Two_People_Tracking_Suit_small-e1595245978438.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Sally Reynolds","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/sally-reynolds\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}