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October 17, 2021 8 min read

What do teachers think? Educational Uses of Augmented Reality Technology

AR, VR and MR are abbreviations that are making their way into our everyday lives, like so many technical terms before them, which are now household terms, like TV, WWW and GPS. However, the borders…

October 15, 2021 9 min read

Unique opportunities provided by Virtual Reality in Higher Education

The Erasmus+ project “Virtual Reality in Higher Education: Application Scenarios and Recommendations” aims to explore the potential of virtual reality (VR) in university teaching and to support educators in using this technology. The project partners…

September 2, 2021 1 min read

Sensors & Immersive Learning – NTNU hybrid event, 8 September

NTNU’s Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning (IMTEL) research group has been organising a series of innovation days and workshops since 2018. The eleventh event “Sensors and Immersive Learning” will be held on Wednesday, 8 September, in…

September 2, 2021 1 min read

Facebook launches beta version of Horizon Workrooms VR app for Oculus Quest 2

Horizon Workrooms is a virtual meeting space developed by Facebook that works across both virtual reality and the web. In order to create a more engaging virtual experience, Facebook used features like the mixed-reality desk…

August 16, 2021 1 min read

VR/AR Global Summit , 29 September – 1 October

The VR/AR Global Summit Online is an online conference, brought to you by the VR/AR Association, connecting the best virtual reality and augmented reality solution providers with researchers, innovation leaders, educational organisations. A wide range…

August 2, 2021 9 min read

Can XR improve Racial Equity in Higher Education?

Cross Reality (XR) refers to a group of emerging technologies that include virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual worlds (VWs) that use 3D models/simulations across physical, virtual, and immersive platforms.…

August 2, 2021 9 min read

User-Centred Design applied to Immersive Technologies in Online Higher Education

It has become cliché to talk about the rapid and disruptive changes facing higher education (HE). The new circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic have only amplified the very predictable commentary on the digital transformation of…

July 30, 2021 1 min read

XR4ALL becomes XR4EUROPE

The European Commission supported XR4ALL project has been doing a great job in recent years in helping support and drive forward the XR community in all sectors including education and training. The project comes to…

July 27, 2021 8 min read

Teaching in Virtual Reality

I am a lecturer at The University of Sydney in Australia. I teach students about the environment, and the roles of engineers in shaping that environment, for better or worse. Since 2017 I have been…

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