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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”

ARPost

Mark Pesce’s book Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing comes to shelves in January, but Polity Books put an advance copy in our hands at ARPost. The book takes a long look at augmented reality’s past in an attempt to warn us about its potential future. Augmented Reality Changes Our Relationship to Space.

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Virtual Reality in Storytelling

ARVR

Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu? Example 2: Google Earth VR [link] Google Earth VR puts the whole world within our reach. With Google Earth VR, we can go anywhere in virtual reality. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?

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Thanks to VR, Teachers Could (Finally) become Millionares

VRWorld

Teachers in the Middle East , Egypt and UAE have shown a particularly keen interest and they are “very passionate” about using this technology. “It’s basically a personal field trip app,” says Ben Schrom, product manager of Google Expeditions.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Educating K-12 children is an entirely different proposition, one that uses different tools, such as Google Expeditions or Nearpod VR. Image courtesy Google Expeditions.). Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.). The next wave.

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EON Reality recognized as Top 100 Company Supporting Education Excellence by OCBJ and IPSF

EON Reality

EON Reality has been recognized by the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) and Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ) as one of the Top 100 Companies Supporting Education Excellence. On the Top 100, EON Reality is joined by organizations such as Google, The Hoag Foundation, and Kia Motors America, Inc.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? But in my opinion, I don’t think the killer app of virtual reality is games.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? But in my opinion, I don’t think the killer app of virtual reality is games.

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