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Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry

Upside Learning

I have great respect for Apple as an organization particularly because I use an iPhone and I think the iPhone has definitely become one of those game-changers in the smartphone world and by a large margin. The iPad was supposed to be better and bigger than the iPhone, closer to a computer and much more than just a phone.

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An Augmented Reality Future

Upside Learning

The app utilizes the iPhone or iPad 2’s front-facing camera to track your hands. The use of augmented reality as an interface has mostly been gimmicky. Perhaps the only other AR based apps that have made equal sense are the augmented reality browsers.

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Augmented Reality – Upside Pune Layar

Upside Learning

Today, Upside Learning is thrilled to announce that we are augmenting reality in Pune, with a layer that’ll let you find significant landmarks in and around the city. If you have an iPhone or Android Phone and have the augmented reality browser Layar installed you can access this layer now.

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When augmented reality isn’t

E-Learning Provocateur

In a world in which everyone loves to bang on about emerging technology, relatively few ever do anything about it. So I was excited to stumble upon their Augmented Reality browsing of Powerhouse Museum around Sydney app for Apple and Android. The app barely augments reality. All is not lost.

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Augmented reality in e-learning – just virtual reality?

Saffron Interactive

The manner of the defeat is not relevant to augmented reality technology in any sense, but I’d like to think that it provides anecdotal evidence that I’d been planning this blog well before this article appeared on the BBC website. Augmented reality for mobile devices isn’t anything new. See for yourself.

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eLearning Glossary 2017 Edition

Association eLearning

AR (Augmented Reality)- Augmented reality is the integration of digital information with the user’s environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it.

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Tools For Mobile Learning Development

Upside Learning

Augmented Reality. It is not available on IPhone. But as IPhone has distinct UI there are some tools to achieve that effect: iui. Tools for Games : You can always use native SDK provided for mobile devices like IPhone to develop games, but then you will have to start from scratch. Blackberry. ELIPS Studio 3.