You can be sitting ‘courtside’ at NBA games with virtual reality — from mercurynews.com by Bill Oram
Excerpt:
“The result is a really strong sense of presence,” said David Cole, who helped found NextVR as a 3D company in 2009. “A vivid sense.”
“In some ways, we could still be at a point in time where a lot of people don’t yet know that they want this in VR,” said David Cramer, NextVR’s chief operating officer. “The thing that we’ve seen is that when people do see it, it just blows away their expectations.”
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Hmm…the above piece from The Mercury News on #VR speaks of presence. A vivid sense of presence.
If they can do this with an NBA game, why cant’ we do this with remote learners & bring them into face-to-face classrooms? How might VR be used in online learning and distance education? Could be an interesting new revenue stream for colleges and universities…and help serve more people who want to learn but might not be able to move to certain locations and/or not be able to attend face-to-face classrooms. Applications could exist within the corporate training/L&D world as well.
Also related/see:
- Watch (parts of) the Super Bowl (sort of) in VR this weekend — from theverge.com by Adi Robertson
Excerpt:
But this experience might be more interesting as a sign of where the industry’s going than as an actual piece of entertainment.