Here's my article, just published on Trainingzone as the headline story, exploring how augmented reality and mobile technology promise to radically improve learning effectiveness. Tags: trainingzone e-learning gesture technology augmented reality kinect mobile learning performance support Would value your comments and feedback. -- The pace of technological innovation continues to surprise. This week reports suggest that, in theory at least, it will be possible to create new materials that. MORE >>

Augmented Reality (AR) is still in its infancy, but as people like me look further afield to find interesting technology to use in (and out of) the classroom, it has been on my radar a bit recently. “Unlike Virtual Reality (VR) that aims at replacing the perception of the world with an artificial one, Augmented Reality (AR) has the goal of enhancing a person’s perception of the surrounding world. Source: Asia Research News, Augmented Reality: The Future of Education Technology. So, what is it? Web 3.0 YouTube MORE >>

What about when I’m in those areas where mobile phone reception is poor, how are they going to get around the intermittent connection – I can see the flickering of data receive/sent/lost being really annoying when it’s constantly in your face (eye) like that. Other Project Glass stories: Google’s ‘Project Glass’ Augmented Reality Glasses Are Real And In Testing. Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project. Related posts: Augmented Reality on campus. More Augmented Reality Videos. MORE >>

My favourite example of augmented reality is now a couple of years old: While it might not be as flash as the xkcd enthusiasts might demand from this emerging technology, it remains practical and – gasp! But are these two latter examples really augmented reality? By projecting both the digital imagery and the real background onto a computer screen, I would argue they are not actually augmenting reality. Instead, they are augmenting a representation of reality. In other words, a copy of reality. Reality is in real-time. MORE >>

Augmented reality (AR), as defined by the infallible Wikipedia, is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.  It differs from virtual reality in that it modifies the real world instead of replacing it with a simulated one. Like many of you, my first look at augmented reality (AR) came via 80s action movies (e.g. At the time, this computer-generated reality was nothing less than fiction.  Introduction to AR. MORE >>