{"id":90654,"date":"2024-02-19T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90654"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:33:47","slug":"vr-is-still-worth-pulse-checking-but-use-cases-need-to-make-headway-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/02\/19\/vr-is-still-worth-pulse-checking-but-use-cases-need-to-make-headway-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"VR is still worth pulse-checking, but use cases need to make headway. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I recently ran into the following item:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/News\/article\/uk-university-opens-vr-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>UK university opens VR classroom<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from inavateonthenet.net<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/News\/article\/uk-university-opens-vr-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/iml\/image\/upload\/w_1024,c_scale\/c_crop,g_custom\/w_1024,c_scale\/v1707750959\/widgetdocs\/Nottingham_VR_qm2ysl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Students at the University of Nottingham will be learning through a dedicated VR classroom, enabling remote viewing and teaching for students and lecturers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Based in the university\u2019s Engineering Science and Learning Centre (ELSC), this classroom, believed to be the first in the UK to use a dedicated VR classroom, using 40 VR headsets, 35 of which are tethered overhead to individual PCs, with five available as traditional, desk-based systems with display screens.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I admit that I was excited to see this article and I congratulate the University of Nottingham on their vision here. I hope that they can introduce more use cases and applications to provide evidence of VR&#8217;s headway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As I look at virtual reality&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">On the plus side, I&#8217;ve spoken with people who love to use their VR-based headsets for fun workouts\/exercises. I&#8217;ve witnessed the sweat, so I know that&#8217;s true. And I believe there is value in having the ability to walk through museums that one can&#8217;t afford to get to. And I&#8217;m sure that the gamers have found some incredibly entertaining competitions out there. The experience of being immersed can be highly engaging. So there are some niche use cases for sure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But on the negative side, the technologies surrounding VR haven&#8217;t progressed as much as I thought they would have by now. For example, I&#8217;m disappointed Apple&#8217;s taken so long to put a product out there, and I don&#8217;t want to invest $3500 in their new product. From the reviews and items on social media that I&#8217;ve seen, the reception is lukewarm. At the most basic level, I&#8217;m not sure people want to wear a headset for more than a few minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So overall, I&#8217;d like to see more use cases and less nausea.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Addendum on 2\/27\/24:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/news\/article\/leyard-wall-of-wonder-wows-visitors-at-molecular-biology-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leyard &#8216;wall of wonder&#8217; wows visitors at Molecular Biology Lab<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from inavateonthenet.net<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/news\/article\/leyard-wall-of-wonder-wows-visitors-at-molecular-biology-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/iml\/image\/upload\/w_1024,c_scale\/c_crop,g_custom\/w_1024,c_scale\/v1708593635\/widgetdocs\/Leyard_prjmsg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I recently ran into the following item: UK university opens VR classroom\u00a0&#8212; from inavateonthenet.net Students at the University of Nottingham will be learning through a dedicated VR classroom, enabling remote viewing and teaching for students and lecturers. Based in the university\u2019s Engineering Science and Learning Centre (ELSC), this classroom, believed to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,26,354,139,72,286,32,215,210,141,82,533,3,391,418,180,309,38,214,312,367,273,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-3d","category-av-audiovisual","category-apple","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-engineering","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-platforms","category-uk","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-virtual-field-trips","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90746,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90654\/revisions\/90746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}