Tag Archives: reality

The Internet of Things and Education

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Angel Brady

With the Inter­net con­nect­ing us to many things (media, pho­tos, infor­ma­tion, etc.) can it also con­nect us to phys­i­cal objects? Can we launch appli­ca­tions on our com­puter by just touch­ing a phys­i­cal object? Can one phys­i­cal object talk to another … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Augmented Reality for Education

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Angel Brady

Aug­mented Real­ity (AR) has been around for some time and also has been labeled as a “gim­micky” tech­nol­ogy. With a cou­ple of new appli­ca­tions using AR, it is now being revis­ited again in the edu­ca­tional world. What exactly is AR? … Con­tinue read­ing →

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App That Uses Augmented Reality to Translate Phrases

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Angel Brady

New app called Word Lens uses the iPhone’s cam­era to view a phrase in another lan­guage and trans­late the phrase right inside the cam­era, show­ing the trans­lated text and not the orig­i­nal text (that is the aug­mented real­ity part of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Augmented Reality and Education

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Angel Brady

In a recent blog post by David Hop­kins, the author explores the Aug­mented Real­ity and how it could be used in edu­ca­tion. Some of the pluses of aug­mented real­ity for edu­ca­tion that David dis­cusses are: “Learn­ing styles: rich exam­ples of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Augmented Reality (AR) and Education

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Angel Brady

Accord­ing to Wikipedia “Aug­mented real­ity (AR) is a field of com­puter research which deals with the com­bi­na­tion of real-world and computer-generated data (vir­tual real­ity), where com­puter graph­ics objects are blended into real footage. ” Recently a lot of com­pa­nies have … Con­tinue read­ing →

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