Category: Virtual Reality (VR)

  • Illustration of people with VR headsets looking at molecules

    From the humble beginnings of stereoscopic pictures, Palmer Luckey’s rebirth of virtual reality in 2012 and the pandemic boom of head mounted displays, is education ready to join the party? 

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  • 360 is all around us

    360 video has exploded in recent years. More and more interactive videos have appeared on Social media and even Adobe products have now added support for editing this kind of footage, but what is it? 360 is the process of using either photo or video to capture an entire 360 degree view of your surroundings. […]

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  • I was really looking forward to this conference due to the main subjects for discussion being games and simulation. Serious games require careful consideration and development in order to be useful. And one of many things I noted during this day was that there is a lot of great projects out there and people with […]

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  • — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — Virtual reality could be used to diagnose and treat visual vertigo, according to a team of Cardiff University psychologists. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-38715719

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  • — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — Virtual reality has been used to help treat severe paranoia. Patients who suffered persecutory delusions were encouraged to step into a computer-generated Underground train carriage and a lift. The simulations allowed the study’s 30 patients to learn social situations they feared were actually safe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36053058  Link […]

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  • Atoms and Augmented Adventures! 

    Illustration of people with VR headsets looking at molecules

    From the humble beginnings of stereoscopic pictures, Palmer Luckey’s rebirth of virtual reality in 2012 and the pandemic boom of head mounted displays, is education ready to join the party? 

  • 360 is all around us

    360 video has exploded in recent years. More and more interactive videos have appeared on Social media and even Adobe products have now added support for editing this kind of footage, but what is it? 360 is the process of using either photo or video to capture an entire 360 degree view of your surroundings. […]

  • Games and Simulation enhanced Learning (GSeL) Conference. How was it for you? Here’s my take…

    I was really looking forward to this conference due to the main subjects for discussion being games and simulation. Serious games require careful consideration and development in order to be useful. And one of many things I noted during this day was that there is a lot of great projects out there and people with […]

  • Virtual reality ‘could help treat vertigo’

    — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — Virtual reality could be used to diagnose and treat visual vertigo, according to a team of Cardiff University psychologists. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-38715719

  • Paranoia ‘reduced with virtual reality’

    — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — Virtual reality has been used to help treat severe paranoia. Patients who suffered persecutory delusions were encouraged to step into a computer-generated Underground train carriage and a lift. The simulations allowed the study’s 30 patients to learn social situations they feared were actually safe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36053058  Link […]