January ← 2010 ← Greenbush Labs

Apple Announces the IPad – will Immersive Touch Now Go Mainstream ?

Jan

2010

- With Apple officially announcing the 9.7 inch screen Ipad …. will the UI of “Touchable 3D Virtual Environments” .. and putting the “Metaverse in Your Hands” go main stream any time in the near future? (see more pics here) #immersive touch

Alan Kay Comments on the Apple Tablet (via GigaOM)

Jan

2010

I have been a huge fan of Alan Kay for many years. He is one of the original architects of the Croquet project - and the inventor of the tablet/netbook computer form factor (Known as the Dynabook), so when I read that he commented on the Apple Tablet (via GigaOM) I had to pass it along ! “When the Mac first came out, Newsweek ...

Immersive Education & Virtual Worlds Summit – Boston College April 23-25th 2010

Jan

2010

- Immersive Education & Virtual Worlds Summit – Boston College April 23-25th 2010 Presentations will focus on: Virtual Worlds in education Opensim, Edusim, OpenCobalt, & Wonderland best practices and use cases More details are posted here: http://mediagrid.org/summit ====

LARGE SCREEN IPOD TOUCH AS A VIRTUAL WORLD & GAMING HARDWARE PLATFORM – Repost from Jan 2009

Jan

2010

- A repost from Jan 2009 I was skeptical a few months ago when I read “The IPod Touch is a gaming platform” – my first thought was “Wow – thats a small screen”…. Then I read this piece by Techcrunch We’ve got this from three independent sources close to Apple: expect a large screen iPod ...

TwitterNote: Edusim gets another convert !

Jan

2010

3D Set To Upgrade Interactive Whiteboard Teaching Resources http://tinyurl.com/ylxq7pe Although a huge number of schools installed interactive whiteboards as the focal teaching resource in the classroom, many are used as a conventional white version of the blackboard with all the electronics turned off. But 3D is about to upgrade the potential. Say hello to the latest ...

Printing … in 3D … from Opensim or Edusim … On Campus !

Jan

2010

imagine kids on campus creating their own molecules, cells (or windmill – or anything for that matter) via Edusim or Opensim and then printing them out IN 3D via one of these 3D printers:http://tinyurl.com/ycs3f5u these things were a quarter of a million dollars 4-5 years ago (amazing what price is doing on this front) ! … at this rate “plausible ...

Is Immersive Touch about to get a boost from Apple ?

Jan

2010

If you have followed this blog for longer than a day you know my positions on Immersive touch (& Edusim **). So as you can imagine I am quite excited about what the new Apple Slate can potentially do for Immersive touch (direct manipulation of 3D virtual objects in multi-user environments). Apple today sent out ...

3D Display Technology will Revolutionize the Classroom

Jan

2010

Because at its core it is about fidelity and “immersing” people & students “into” the content. Especially on the interactive whiteboard it will be even more revolutionary – and a ripe medium for 3D content designers and natural user interface creators as myself, spurring “Immersive Touch” and “Immersive Natural User Interface” design. Stay tuned.Key Terms: Immersive Touch ...

CES and 3D

Jan

2010

An interesting video from the CEO of Comcast “3D all the time” and “This feel like the time”

Stereoscopic 3D, Immersive Touch, and The Classroom

Jan

2010

A review from the past few years regarding stereoscpic 3D and Immersive Touch

Download Edusim Alpha 11

Jan

2010

The next version of the Edusim distribution of Cobalt – Edusim Alpha 11 – is available for download at the users page here: http://edusim.ning.com Due to a few known bugs I have decided to release a few more Alpha version before the first Beta version (hopefully by this summer) Let me know how it works ...

Immersive Touch – 3D Projectors – Direct Manipulation – Haptics – and the Future Classroom Interactive Whiteboards

Jan

2010

- Where might the future interactive whiteboard lead and what will it do to the “Immersive Interaction” within the classroom? A concept I call “Looking Glass” takes the curved 3D projected (or LCD display) surface, adds haptics, manipulatable 3D virtual learning objects – and rolls them all into one big bag of fun ! I ...

Edusim – Immersive Touch – Patents – and the Public Domain

Jan

2010

In several discussion today with collegues regarding the Edusim & immersive touch work brings up an interesting point – in light of Apple securing the patent for “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating Three-Dimensional Virtual Objects”. The primary discussion is, can a company really patent something that has been in the public domain ...

Immersive Touch – and the Direct Manipulation of 3D Virtual Objects & Spaces – Apple Grabs Patent

Jan

2010

- I knew I would see this one day – after evangelizing immersive touch of nearly 4 years I though it might happen sooner (looks like they got the patent in 2008) to be honest ! I was plesentaly surprised to see it was Apple diving into “Immersive Touch”! .. Its all about the direct manipulation ! ...

The Emerging Tablet Wars & Augmented Reality

Jan

2010

Hopefully these do not become glorified pieces of digital paper good only for viewing text on … they would be wonderful augmented reality “Looking Glasses”

learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments

Jan

2010

A nice research piece from the British Journal of Educational Technology “What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?” – Barney Dalgarno and Mark J. W. Lee This article explores the potential learning benefits of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual learning environments (VLEs). Drawing on published research spanning two decades, it identifies a set of unique ...

Reading the Tea Leaves: The Road Ahead – From July 2007

Jan

2010

“The Road Ahead” post from 2 and 1/2 years ago has proven to be extremely accurate to date: (original is here: http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=258) Especially in light of what is expected at the 2010 CES show