Reach out and TOUCH SOMEONE?

Virtual and Augmented Reality are cool.  Unfortunately, cool only goes so far - there must be a REASON why we would use it in Education.  Well, in my last post, I gave an excellent example of how VR can transport whole classrooms of students to places that they have never been and would, most likely, never go.  The visuals and audio are amazing and transformative, but I felt like there was something missing... UNTIL NOW!

Enter, GLOVEone!

Yes, it is finally here.  The interactive tool that lets you FEEL the environment that you are virtually visiting.  Here is their promo video - get ready to be inspired.

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Here is the "techie" video on how the device works.

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OK... so what do you think?  At the rate at which this stuff is coming out, I am going to need to create a "Kick-starter" just to be able to afford to test them!!  Speaking of Kickstarter, here is the link to the GloveOne campaign.

So my friends out there in" virtual blog-land"...are YOU ready to reach out and touch someone?

As always, please post your comments on the blog page.

Yossie

Yossie Frankel
Director - Consortium for Information and Academic Technologies
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