The Trend Advisor

Steve Rubel is Director of Insights – Media is slowly being converted from atoms to bits

The Future of Computing in the Classroom 1

With NECC winding up Ill give my $.02 regarding where I expect computing in the classroom is headed over the next 10 years. Ubiquitous Computing: Computing “blended” into the classroom (IWB’s interactive surfaces & direct manipulation) Advanced Visualization: As capabilities increase – those extra resources will be leveraged to increase the users experience visually Augmented ...

Collaborative 3D Virtual Environments and Advanced Classroom Visualization – White Paper 3

. Download the PDF version here Title: Collaborative 3D Virtual Environments and Advanced Classroom Visualization – A Case Study By: Richard L. White – The Southeast Kansas Education Service Center at Greenbush (SEKESC) – June 20, 2009 Introduction: As computational capabilities exponentially improve,  and classroom visualization capabilities exponentially increase, understanding the possibilities becomes an important ...

[Demo Video] 3D Stereoscopics and the Interactive Whiteboard (Smartboard or Activboard)

. This post accompanies my previous post Stereoscopics, Haptics, & 3D Virtual Worlds for Learning We have connected the Stereoscopic viewer to our locally running Opensim environment GreenbushGrid Questions? let me know -> rich.lynn.white(at)gmail.com

3D Virtual Environments, Augmented Reality, Live Video, and Tele-Immersion 1

The cheese moves:

Greenbush Immersive Education Initiative

http://edusim3d.com http://grid.greenbush.us http://gie.greenbush.us

[Video] NASA World Wind to Opensim Virtual World for Students Monitoring Global Climate Change

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Research Notes [Video]: 3D, Edusim, Interactive Whiteboards, and the Mobile Immersive Learning Lab

. Edusim &  the Interactive Whiteboard (Oct. 2007) Edusim,  the interactive whiteboard, and the Wiimote 3D navigational device (June 2008)  Edusim & the QuickCave – prototype (Sept 2008) Edusim & the Mobile Immersive Learning Lab (Feb 2009) 3D, Steroscopics, and the Interactive Whiteboard, MILL, QuickCave, Wiimote, and more (Summer 2009)

Google Sketchup, OpenCobalt, and Emedding Sketchup Models on a Webpage

As you know OpenCobalt has supported Google Sketchup and Google 3D warehouse for several months now.  Now it is possible to embed Sketchup models in the Google 3D warehouse to preview on your website or blog (see below) !

Stereoscopics, Haptics, & 3D Virtual Worlds for Learning 1

In some of my earliest planning for Edusim back in 2007 I developed a “List” of developmental functions (the Nov. 2007 post with complete list is here).  Among the items of that list were haptics, a surround physical space (as we are working on with the “mobile immersive learning lab“) and stereoscopics (Stereoscopics – red/blue ...

Coming soon … 3D projectors for the classroom & whiteboard

And wouldn’t the MILL look good with one http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=710  Viewsonic launches 3D projector

Employee Motivation, Innovation, and Improvement

One of my favorite topics at http://www.psychologytoday.com – did my Masters thesis on the topic back in 1995-96 so I a biased of course … there is an except below ! 1. Value Every Employee’s Ideas Managers who are aggressive about eliciting the ideas of their staff will find that getting everyone involved as innovators ...

GeoDome Immersive Learning Environment

By http://www.elumenati.com/

The Coming Video Revolution

As reported by TechCrunch Here Cisco: By 2013 Video Will Be 90 Percent Of All Consumer IP Traffic And 64 Percent of Mobile Past labs GreenbushTV posts: * The GreenbushTV Video Bumber – June 2007 * IDL content and stream it into Usteam.tv (April 2007) * Trends Ahead (July 2007) *

iPhone 3.0 opens up the data port for accessory goodness

Examples (via macrumorslive) : * Pasco – teaching sciences to children – Using hardware accessory n iPhone , users can hook up sensors to to perform experiments #gblabs * Line6 and Planet Waves. Control your guitar and amp from your iPhone. * TomTom - Thanks to the iPhone 3.0 accessory framework, it provides more accurate ...

Opensim Immersive Education Hosting Plans – Now Available from Greenbush

More Immersive Education Products are rolled out: No Server & Small Budget? – This package includes (off-site) hosting and support for your virtual world server (supporting 25-30 concurrent users) in standalone mode through our partners at . Complete with setup of our classroom simulations on 6 of our islands and Mars, CSI, and the Museum ...

DARPA does Programable matter – moves “Plausible Copy” work forward

From Engadget today Dr. Mitchell R. Zakin is hopeful they can one day build a container that looks like a paint can and will form universal spare parts or tools such as hammers and wrenches based on the soldiers’ needs, using a building material they call “mesomatter” that range anywhere from one hundred microns to ...

3D Virtual Worlds, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence 2

The future of learning and interacting with project Natal’s Milo

Immersive Education, Virtual Worlds, & Classroom Visualization

My June 5th presentation for Pittsburg State University:

Banbury Immersive Education Server Stack: Opensim, ReactionGrid, & Greenbush

The Banbury Immersive Education Server Stack is a hardware, software, and support package specifically designed and supported with the educational sector in mind. From K-12 to universities the Banbury Immersive Education Server Stack is custom designed for those educational institutions that want to run a virtual world server platform in a protected environment behind their ...