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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. I wasn’t a close student of computing technologies before I started into tech journalism a couple of years ago.

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Is VR the Future of News?

Tech Trends VR

Even while you’re taking in the beautiful sights and sounds as you fly above waterfalls, you’re made aware that this is where the world’s first war over water could be fought as a major new project – the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – threatens to upset the balance of power between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

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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 challenges to overcome are still great, as is natural if the technology is going to keep pace with innovation. Educating K-12 children is an entirely different proposition, one that uses different tools, such as Google Expeditions or Nearpod VR.

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Virtual Reality in Storytelling

ARVR

Technology and media enable us to use our senses to experience different worlds and expand our horizons. VR technology brings new life to this famous static painting. 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.

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Thanks to VR, Teachers Could (Finally) become Millionares

VRWorld

Technology is set to play a vital role in helping the 263 million children globally who are not in school, delegates at the annual Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) heard. Teachers in the Middle East , Egypt and UAE have shown a particularly keen interest and they are “very passionate” about using this technology.

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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. Charlie: On the topic of technology, so, it’s great to work with them and all the collaborators.

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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. Charlie: On the topic of technology, so, it’s great to work with them and all the collaborators.

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