{"id":189,"date":"2016-02-17T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/?p=189"},"modified":"2016-02-19T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:39:36","slug":"15-virtual-reality-and-the-educational-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/2016\/02\/17\/15-virtual-reality-and-the-educational-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"#15 Virtual Reality and the Educational Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of educational technology can be told through the history of various technological “tipping points” \u2014 times when\u00a0a\u00a0conceptual technology becomes real due to the development of\u00a0new hardware. These are points in time when science fiction turns into\u00a0reality. Scott and I believe that virtual reality’s\u00a0“tipping point” is near. In this episode of URTechSavvy, we\u00a0explore the new hardware and discuss their potential as an effective\u00a0educational tool.<\/p>\n

Links Mentioned during podcast:<\/h5>\n

A Trip to the Moon \/ Le Voyage dans la lune – 1902\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Hardware<\/h6>\n

Oculus<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Cardboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Hololens<\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung Gear VR<\/a><\/p>\n

Elders in VR<\/h6>\n

Grandma on the roller coaster:<\/a><\/p>\n

Mother in Dinosaur museum: “How’d you get a museum in this?”<\/a><\/p>\n

Granny in the Oculus<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore<\/a><\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/urctlt.com\/podcast\/media\/URTechSavvy015.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a><\/p>

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts<\/a> | RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of educational technology can be told through the history of various technological “tipping points” \u2014 times when\u00a0a\u00a0conceptual technology becomes real due to the development of\u00a0new hardware. These are points in time when science fiction turns into\u00a0reality. Scott and I believe that virtual reality’s\u00a0“tipping point” is near. In this episode of URTechSavvy, we\u00a0explore the … Continue reading #15 Virtual Reality and the Educational Experience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2184,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/files\/2016\/02\/Riker_Jungle_Holodeck_2364.jpg?fit=1440%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7KEJi-33","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urtechsavvy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}