How to use Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality for teaching and training
We have so many unfinished blog posts. About our research projects, things we’ve learned from Inhouse masterclasses, CoSpaces Edu tutorials and parts of Robin’s courses. Some are almost done, some still require quite some work.
Quite a shame, as we like to think that people might find this interesting. One resolution for 2019 is therefore to share our thoughts on our blog, newsletter and social media channels. Brace yourselves.
Door het hele land worden er allerlei activiteiten rond Virtual Reality in de bibliotheek georganiseerd. Lezingen, Oculus Rift demonstraties, zelf Google Cardboard VR brillen maken, enzovoort. Erg goed om te zien, aangezien de bibliotheek me een uitstekende plek lijkt om mensen wegwijs te maken in dit nieuwe medium. Daarbij kan Virtual en Augmented Reality ook erg relevant worden voor bibliotheken. Zo kan AR bijvoorbeeld kunnen worden gebruikt om de bibliotheek te verrijken en kan VR worden ingezet als alternatieve manier om digitale verzamelingen te verkennen.
In deze post beschrijf ik een aantal oudere en recente projecten die we hebben gedaan voor bibliotheken.
Voor de bibliotheek Gelderland-Zuid heb ik samen met Donna Schipper een Virtual Reality ‘zoekboek’ gemaakt geïnspireerd door het bekende prentenboek De Gele Ballon van Charlotte Dematons. Het zoeken van verschillende objecten in een virtuele ruimte werkt erg goed in VR was onze ervaring. Erg leuk, klein project om te doen! Momenteel is de Gear VR app alleen beschikbaar via de bibliotheek Gelderland-Zuid.
In May 2015 the Gratama Stichting and Leids Universiteitsfonds announced that my research project into the possibilities of Virtual Reality for the field of education will receive the Gratama research grant. Prof. dr. Jaap van den Herik helped me with the application procedure, the research will be part of my PhD work supervised by prof. dr. Bas Haring.
The research project includes an elective course where 30 students will explore the potential of Virtual Reality for science and education by creating experimental VR prototypes. More details about the course in the e-Studiegids.
My research project was mentioned in the Leiden University newsletter and Mare.
On the 19th of June 2014 at 10.00, I’ll teach a workshop for the Embodied Vision course of the Media Technology MSc. program. Below you can find a short description of the workshop and the assignment. After the workshop I’ll post a summary of what we’ve discussed.
In this workshop we will go through the basics of working with Unity3D, discuss interesting projects made with the software and experiment with creating your own Augmented or Virtual Reality project. I will explain about the Vuforia library which can be used to create mobile AR apps and get you started to develop for Oculus Rift. For the workshop you will need Unity Pro which can be downloaded from unity3d.com. Please install the software beforehand. You can make use of the 30-day trial version.
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