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Education Applications in Reality Technology (MR, AR, VR) The education industry has historically been a little slow to embrace new technologies. Although the Educational Technology (EdTech) space is quite large, finding traction in cash-strapped public schools especially as been difficult. Sometimes, though, a technology comes along that is so clearly a watershed moment that the whole world stands up and takes notice. Virtual reality is one such technology, and it’s making inroads into every aspect of education. DAQRI Developer DAQRI offers multiple content development solutions for DAQRI Smart Helmet® and DAQRI Smart Glasses™: Vos™ Extension for Unity: With DAQRI’s extension to the popular Unity 3D software you can create content from scratch, or port existing projects to the DAQRI platform. Download the Vos™ Extension for Unity to get started.Tutorials: There is an extensive collection of tutorials to familiarize yourself with Vos™ Extension for Unity and get acquainted with AR development best practices. See TutorialsSoftware Stack: To learn more about the organization of the DAQRI AR Platform, we've created a diagram of our software stack. See Software Stack For more information visit the Develop section.
Free Tools For Teachers : Small Basic Help your students start writing their first programs quickly and easily. With only 15 keywords and an inviting development environment, Small Basic is structured to help them succeed. Students who wish to advance their software development skills can also take advantage of Small Basic's online guides and e-books to help them move ahead. Small Basic makes learning programming easy, fun, and interesting Turn a Blog Into a Book One of the reasons that I continue to encourage teachers to blog with students is that it helps to create a record of what your students have observed, learned, created, and shared throughout the school year. At the end of the year, you may want to take that blog and turn it into a physical item that your students can share with their parents. BlogBooker is a tool that can help you do that. BlogBooker is a service that allows you to turn your the contents of your Blogger or WordPress blog into a PDF. Using BlogBooker is a fairly straight-forward process. BlogBooker walks you through each step of the process including the first step which is exporting the contents of your blog as an XML file.
Online Notebook Google Slides theme and PowerPoint template Use an online notebook to prepare your classes, it doesn’t matter if you are a teacher of a student! In Slidesgo we have just created the perfect template for you. This multi-purpose presentation is simply perfect for any educational purpose. It looks like a notebook, displaying writing lines and sheets. In addition, you’ll also see highlights, underlined words, doodles and illustrations of stationery. The title typefaces display a hand-written style, which is in consonance with the rest of the template.
Augmented Reality Glasses: What You Can Buy Now (or Soon) There has been a steady buzz about the virtues of virtual reality, but augmented reality is on the cusp of truly breaking out. Most people have been introduced to the technology via popular smartphone games like Pokemon Go or Snapchat's suite of filters. And with Apple and Google launching their own smartphone-driven AR platforms, ARKit and ARCore, the AR wave shows no signs of dissipating.
The Layar Reality Browser is a mobile application. It shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality. This digital information is called a 'layer'. Layar Reality Browser is available for iPhone and Android phones (201101), free and easy to install. There are hundreds of layers; both international and local. Have a go and experience it yourself. by pauldedigitect Jan 23