The demand for virtual lab is growing with the development of online learning. Online lectures by video are fine for conveying facts, formulas and concepts, but they can’t give students experience in planning an experiment and analysing data, or exercising any of the other practical and social skills essential for success in science. Researchers and … Continue reading “Virtual Labs – An investigation in to the future of the teaching labs”
Category: Virtual reality
Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality is a computer-generated scenario that simulates the experience through the senses and perception.
Do you have an idea for a mobile app?
The IT Innovation team is about to commence on a project to evaluate React Native – an open source mobile development framework for creating native mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms. What do we mean by native mobile applications? A native mobile app is a smartphone app that is coded in a specific programming … Continue reading “Do you have an idea for a mobile app?”
Labster Evaluation
Labster is a company which develops interactive advanced lab simulations for broad range subjects including chemistry, sciences, medicine, and biology, etc. It aims to provide the educators various laboratory simulations which can be used in teaching the STEM students. Labster launched its lab simulation software back in 2013, so far it has created about 71 … Continue reading “Labster Evaluation”
Lapworth Allosaurus App
An educational virtual reality application from the Lapworth Museum of Geology, designed by James Bogart from Computer Science, to allow visitors to learn more about the Allosaurus, a predator from the late Jurassic era. This application will allow users to learn more about the Allosaurus specimen at the museum and also about the Tyrannosaurs Rex, … Continue reading “Lapworth Allosaurus App”
Apple ARKit Overview
In the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced a tool called ARKit, which provides advanced augmented reality capabilities on iOS. Augmented reality is creating the illusion that virtual objects are placed in a physical world. Unlike other augmented reality experience that virtual objects are just hovering over the real world scenario, ARKit allows for fast and … Continue reading “Apple ARKit Overview”
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education
Technology is improving at a rapid pace, as many things emerging today can only exist in human being’s imagination before. Some of the impossible things rising to the occasion are the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Although they are very similar in terms of creating virtual objects, they are different in creating immersive environments for the audience. Recently, … Continue reading “Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education”
Virtual Reality Using Leap Motion and Oculus Rift
The advent of more precise consumer virtual reality (VR) systems garnered the interest of numerous industries over the unimaginable potential of these head-mounted displays (HMDs). These HMDs, coupled with an input device, enables us to interact within the virtual environment – which boosts the sense of immersion. With recent advances in software, it has become easier to interact … Continue reading “Virtual Reality Using Leap Motion and Oculus Rift”
Oculus Rift: Analysis and potential use in Higher Education
If you don’t know what the Oculus Rift (OR) is, it is a virtual reality (VR) headset that covers your eyes blocking out any sight other than what it’s embedded screens show you. The OR tracks your head movements and where you are in space which is mimicked on the screens in front of you. The OR … Continue reading “Oculus Rift: Analysis and potential use in Higher Education”