Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2010

Marker based/Image recognition – using a camera these applications recognize a marker or an image in the real world, calculate its position & orientation to augment the reality. Here I share some of them that may be useful for our readers if they too wish to experiment with AR. The AR applications can be divided into two categories –.

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Upside Learning

JULY 13, 2010

Lets you access the device’s features like camera, accelerometer or the data like address book. High end (rich) applications can be developed if HTML5/CSS3 technology is used for development, which also enable use of audio, video and animation within the application. Native Apps. Superior in terms of performance and user experience.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2012

With camera phones recording a video is a breeze and at almost no cost. Cross Language: Since videos ‘show’ pictures and can include subtitles they are much easier for non-native speakers of the language to understand. Low Costs: Video production costs have come down drastically in last few years.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I think the iPad in its current form – sans Flash, multitasking, & camera – has very limited uses in workplace learning. Some of these are related to the absence of Flash and Camera on the iPad. However there are quite a few things about the iPad that suck (here are 8 that gizmodo listed ). It can’t!

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I considered several other ways too, including augmented reality applications, but the lack of a camera puts a damper on a lot of cool learning possibilities. The lack of a camera prevents synchronous video, but that’s a niggle. I see 7 ways in which the iPad will (or should I say may) be used in workplace learning.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The app utilizes the iPhone or iPad 2’s front-facing camera to track your hands. Every now and again, I’m blown away by the imaginative apps I see in the iOS App Store, as did this one: Ghost Guitar. You strum with your right hand and fret chords with the left. Quite a simple mechanic that has been exceedingly well-implemented.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 23, 2013

Where your users need to access information, materials, eLearning in low connectivity areas, off line or need to use the devices’ native capabilities (like camera) to perform specific tasks a native app is the answer. Let’s keep this simple.

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2011

How to Make eLearning Video with Digital SLR Cameras (and Why). Here is a brief description of ten gaming genres and some tips on how they can be used in the classroom. All these games were chosen because they are popular with young language learners, engaging and fun.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The gateway to this profusion has been mobile devices enabled with photo/video cameras and internet connections allowing quick sharing with the world-at-large. User generated content is exploding on the internet, YouTube and Flickr are great examples of that. This trend has only contributed more to the deluge of data.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

camera (photo & video). GPS enabled. games device. accelerometer. When thinking m-learning think how you can use one or more of these capabilities. Inputs to mobile could be through many interfaces including: keypad. touch screen. barcode scanners. microphone voice. motion sensor. network input to GPS.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 5, 2009

The one that set the game bloggers on fire was Project Natal, a motion sensing camera based device for the XBOX. At this E3 it was Microsoft that made the most news with a slew of new products and technologies. It’s not a stretch of imagination to foresee that this sort of device will be made available for all platforms.

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Upside Learning

MAY 29, 2009

I’d hazard a guess that this is a great first step for cheap biometric identification enabled through camera enabled devices using a browser. By using the AS3 Marilena library Squidder built this unique application that can recognize faces via object recognition.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

End-users will see, ideally, differentiated devices, converged devices that are based on Symbian that range from smartphones [to converged devices],&# such as cameras or a phone that is a gaming device. Previously, the kernel was made available via open source. WordPress for Android WordPress for Blackberry.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 5, 2009

The one that set the game bloggers on fire was Project Natal, a motion sensing camera based device for the XBOX. At this E3 it was Microsoft that made the most news with a slew of new products and technologies. It’s not a stretch of imagination to foresee that this sort of device will be made available for all platforms.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2010

Think about the phones, the cameras, and the multi-functional computers we carry around. As more digital technology becomes mainstay in our lives, our ability to tell stories digitally has surpassed what could have been imagined just a generation ago. Each is a tool that can be leveraged for creating or telling stories.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The next version of the iPad – iPad 2.0 – will be faster, lighter, thinner and with at least 100% more camera than the original. Read more about this cool app. Can Faster, Thinner, Lighter Compete with Android Tablets? The shocking details have been unearthed. It will be all you ever imagined and hoped for and then some.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Mobile’ is a unique device that brings together the capabilities of numerous disparate devices – like a phone, a camera, an audio/ video player & recorder, a computer, eBook reader, a GPS device, a game console – all in the palm of your hand. Invariably, it forces you to focus on how to deliver learning on mobile devices.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 16, 2012

In context of mlearning native apps score over mobile web when your staff need to access information when in low/no connectivity areas or need to perform specific operations which need to use devices’ native capabilities like camera or higher processing capability.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner.ProFORMA lets you rotate any object in front of the camera and it scans it in real time, building a fully 3D texture mapped model as fast as you can turn an object.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2013

By using a mobile device as a learning platform, one can leverage its unique features such as camera, audio/ video player & recorder, computing device, eBook reader, GPS, gaming compatibility etc. What are the limitations of mobile learning? A: None, if you do it for the right reasons and in the right way.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m all for exploring it…except that I don’t have a camera phone. Call me outdated, but I prefer to keep my camera and my phone separate. Does this mean that I’ll have to purchase a camera phone just for this? It’s just one of those things. But what do I do if information I need to access in the future is in a QR code?

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 18, 2011

What if young people were encouraged to view their mobile phones, cameras, and iPods as learning devices and tools for critical citizenship and engagement in their communities? This post walks through nine clusters of education tech companies. Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media. 30+ Ways to Use Foursquare In Education.

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Upside Learning

JULY 25, 2009

In the future, we will see mobile phones, computers and various other computing/media devices (iPods, Digital Cameras, PDAs, etc.) With increasingly capable hardware and connectivity available and dropping costs, it’s only a matter of time before learning games on mobile become commonplace.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2011

This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone. QR Codes Explained by Common Craft. 10 Examples Of QR Codes For Real Time Marketing. Find 10 examples of QR codes for real time marketing. Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Change Your World.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

But the typical gestural system involves use of expensive cameras and special gloves or color tracking tags onto finger.Some smart students at MIT have figured out how to turn a typical LCD into a low-cost, 3-D gestural computing system.

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