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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work.

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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." But in VR, you really can do that, and you can go anywhere in the world instantly.

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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.” You can make these virtual worlds.

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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.” You can make these virtual worlds.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment.

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