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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. This is what Apple did in the 2000s with the iPod and iPhone. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.). Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. Where is that?

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

XR for Business Podcast

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. 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. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with. Alan: Interesting.

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

XR for Business Podcast

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. 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. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with. Alan: Interesting.

AR 78