July ← 2009 ← Greenbush Labs

Synergy and Emergent Behavior

Jul

2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy Synergy (from the Greek syn-ergos, ???????? meaning working together) is the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. Although the whole will be greater than each individual part, this is not the concept of synergy. If used ...

Immersive Education Day: Kansas City – Its a Wrap !

Jul

2009

GREAT group of presenters – great group in attendance ! Hope to see you all again next year !

My IEDay Presentation This Morning

Jul

2009

Edusim Makes the Trendhunters Magazine List in “13 Innovative Whiteboards of the Future” 1

Jul

2009

-Via Trendhunter Magazine Ever wondered what whiteboards of the future might look like? This cluster offers insight into some of the visual demonstration boards we might see in classrooms, offices and even homes of the future.Although whiteboards of the future will no doubt vary from the designs seen here, these innovative products hint at unlimited potential ...

Mobile Immersive Applications Finally Wont make you Cross Eyed

Jul

2009

Been following this one for about a year now (Notes about the IPod Touch (prposed new size) & Unity) and today Techcrunch is reporting: So what other details are there? Well, the device will apparently have a 10-inch screen (slightly bigger than the 7 to 9 inch screen prototypes our sources had seen). It will ...

SimSnail – Augmented Reality Learning

Jul

2009

Visitors can watch as they wave cards in front of the camera to bring life to a colony of 3D snails that live, breed and get eaten by predators right in front of their eyes. The experience is designed to be flexible and playful, allowing you to modify aspects of the environment to see how ...

The First Annual Immersive Education Day: Kansas/Missouri 2

Jul

2009

The First Annual Immersive Education Day: Kansas/Missouri Welcome to the first annual Immersive Education Day (iED) Kansas/Missouri. iED Kansas/Missouri is sponsored by the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center at Greenbush and the Immersive Education Initiative. The event is intended primarily for K-12 virtual world educators. The goal of this conference is to: Showcase virtual world ...

Moores Law and the Interactive Whiteboard 6

Jul

2009

1958, the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. The trend was first observed by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper. It has continued for almost half a century and in 2005 was not expected to stop for another ...

Augmented Reality – Overlaying The Virtual World & Information onto Real Objects

Jul

2009

Augmented Reality overlays virtual objects and information over the real world. Augmented Reality (AR): Will It Change Your Life? Tech World Says “Yes” (via dailygalaxy) Augmented Reality (AR) is the information age overlaid on the real world. The idea is that if you know where a billboard is, and what it says, and what direction ...

Scratch for Opensim – built off Scratch for Secondlife 16

Jul

2009

A big thanks to Eric Rosenbaum – creator of Scratch for Secondlife – for showing me a few tricks …. I did a VERY LITTLE bit of tweeking to create a universal Scratch for Opensim package with Mac, Windows, and Linux launchers all in one (Windows launcher might need tested) Download here & Let me ...

Using Free to Create Demand for Premium

Jul

2009

Great piece by Chris Anderson regarding : Using Free to Create Demand for Premium as a Business Model Scarcity vs. Abundance

Scratch4Secondlife now works with Opensim ! 2

Jul

2009

Scratch4Secondlife to create a LSL script for an Opensim object …. and It works (running server version 0.64) !

The Interactive Genie is almost out of the Bottle 1

Jul

2009

3D – Interactive Surfaces – and Augmented Reality for Education are quickly reaching a tipping point … and the “Interactive Genie” is almost out of the bottle – which should frighten a few well knowns (not mentioning any names) The IWB functions INSIDE the projector Projection onto non-flat 3D surfaces Touchless Control Projection Normalization for ...