{"id":2577,"date":"2017-01-30T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/vratur\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:31:28","slug":"january-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2017\/01\/30\/january-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"January Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing Augmented Reality well is going to require significant improvements in optical technology.<\/a><\/p>\n

I still think we are further away from a successful consumer product than most think.<\/p>\n

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Digital Storytelling\u00a0with VR technology becoming mainstream. Google’s Virtual Reality Spotlight Story ‘Pearl’ Gets Oscar Nomination.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

I highly recommend experiencing both “Pearl” and a short animated VR experience (it’s more than a movie) Allumette<\/a> with the Vive. Both experiences give you a glimpse of how this new technology can be a beautiful storytelling tool.<\/p>\n

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Designing for Virtual Reality<\/a><\/p>\n

Designing for virtual reality presents new challenges to a UX designer because good VR prioritizes presence over simplicity and function. How can we design for presence?<\/p>\n

The devices that formerly relied on more external cues now rely heavily on how our minds are built and wired. Although user-experience designers have traditionally accounted for cognitive science in how they design mobile and desktop interfaces, the user-experience of virtual reality is different because it does not prioritize function but instead prioritizes displacement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a neuroscientist, I don’t know if I 100% agree with the author’s conclusions about the brain on virtual reality but I think they are onto something with how impactful sublime<\/em> experiences are in VR (i.e. Google Earth).<\/p>\n

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Samsung on the Possibilities of VR in Education<\/a><\/p>\n

An immersive experience in a virtual reality classroom, however, would be<\/strong> a fundamentally different proposition. The study of anatomy could<\/strong> go beyond frogs to embrace large mammals and even humans, whose computer-imaged insides could<\/strong> be examined in detail. (emphasis is mine<\/strong>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m really looking forward to the day when we can start writing and reading articles that address actual VR education software\/hardware instead of hypotheticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doing Augmented Reality well is going to require significant improvements in optical technology.
\nI still think we are further away from a successful consumer product than most think.
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\nDigital Storytelling\u00a0with VR technology becoming mainstream. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86539],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immersive-technologies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}