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

ARPost

From the introduction, Pesce moves onto a history of computing and user interface beginning – where else – with Classical-Age Egypt. Pesce identifies these technologies as Microsoft Kinect, Keyhole (a forerunner of Google Maps), and the smartphone by way of Google Cardboard. The (Long) History of Augmented Reality.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Better crowd control tools available such as management of voice, text, and regions. Educating K-12 children is an entirely different proposition, one that uses different tools, such as Google Expeditions or Nearpod VR. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.).

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

XR for Business Podcast

But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. So that’s a better tool for that job in a certain respect. Alan: So interesting. Why can it do that?

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

XR for Business Podcast

But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. So that’s a better tool for that job in a certain respect. Alan: So interesting. Why can it do that?

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec's Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far -- going to the pyramids in Egypt -- that's not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, "let's get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something." That type in a VR experience would be real exciting. That was a game-changer.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec’s Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far — going to the pyramids in Egypt — that’s not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, “let’s get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something.” That type in a VR experience would be real exciting.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec’s Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far — going to the pyramids in Egypt — that’s not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, “let’s get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something.” That type in a VR experience would be real exciting.