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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. The use of gaming, non-player characters, story arcs, simulation, and overall engagement for student learning is flourishing. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.).

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

XR for Business Podcast

In the book, you discuss military, telepresence, design and architecture, medical, retail, marketing, journalism, social media, entertainment, gaming, and education. 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. Charlie: Right.

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

XR for Business Podcast

In the book, you discuss military, telepresence, design and architecture, medical, retail, marketing, journalism, social media, entertainment, gaming, and education. 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. Charlie: Right.

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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 was a game-changer. And honestly, they're fine on a regular games!

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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 was a game-changer. Alan: I love it.

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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 was a game-changer. Alan: I love it.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

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. And most important of all–and a great credit to our talented programmer and CEO Nathanael Tavares– we have not had a single bug report from the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, or Steam.