You may recall my recent post about Mini-bots - the cool Arduino based bots that John Umekubo put me onto...
Well, John has done it again! This time he has sent me info on the ZAP BOX Mixed Reality Headset for $30.00!! Yes, you read correctly... $30.00!!
You have to check this out!!!!
Just like Google Cardboard was a game changer for many of us who were early experimenters in Virtual/Augmented Reality, I predict that this product with do the same thing in "Mixed Reality!"
Now, I hear some of you already... this is a Kickstarter, (click for link) how do you know if you are going to get your monies worth?
Well, yes, there is always some risk, but I have spent more on taking my family out for a simple Pizza!! I can hardly wait to get my hands on this and start some of my more ambitious students on developing applications! (Maybe a virtual pizzeria! :-)
In my webcast yesterday with Rabbi Zach Swigard (STEM in Limudai Kodesh), we talked about using Augmented Reality in a STEM setting. His students loved using it so much that, on their own initiative, they added AR elements to their school yearbook making the whole experience (and their yearbook) come alive! Sometimes, it is these kind of spontaneous ideas that get folks all charged up and install a life-long love of learning in people. I can hardly wait to see what they will do with this technology.
As always, I solicit you comments on the blogsite.
Yossie
Thank you for helping people get the information they need. Great stuff as usual. Keep up the great work!!!
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Thanks Robert!... Yossie
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