Tag: ar

  • Understanding the Potential of AR and VR for Autistic Children

    Written by JungYeon Choe. Edited by Elliot Hu-Au. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1 out of every 68 school-age child has autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (CDC, 2016). In the United States, more than 3.5 million American live with this disorder (Buescher et al, 2014).…

  • Merge VR, the Cube, and Mixed Reality: A Review of the Apps

    After working with the Cube by Merge VR last year during an internship I finally got to try out a few of its published apps. I and some colleagues played with the Cube, using only our smartphones, and then tried the same experiences in VR with a Google Cardboard. The number of…

  • Google Expeditions, Project Tango, and WebVR, Oh My!

    Recently I had the opportunity to share Google Expeditions with 12 high-schoolers in a summer tech camp. This is not the first time I’ve led a group through using Google Expeditions so I knew that there would probably be some technical glitches.  True to form, there were troubles for students…

  • Microsoft Hololens’ Holotours: Making history come alive

    If you haven’t seen Microsoft Hololens‘ Holotours (or a demo of it) you are missing out. Here’s a Youtube video from The Game Veda to give you an idea of  what lies ahead for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5aWF0vURc[/embedyt] Let’s begin with the obvious. The immersive nature of…