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To Catch ’em All, Campus Needs to be Accessible

[cs_content][cs_section parallax="false" style="margin: 0px -25px;padding: 045px 0px 0;"][cs_row inner_container="true" marginless_columns="false" style="margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;"][cs_column fade="false" fade_animation="in" fade_animation_offset="45px" fade_duration="750" type="1/1" style="padding: 0px;"][cs_text]One afternoon sometime in the middle of our summer, in need of a little sun—the glow of a monitor only goes so far—I picked up my laptop and headed out...

The New View-Master Takes on Augmented Reality; Should We Take it Into the Classroom?

We are, as others have pointed out, in the age of augmented reality. Whereas the twentieth century saw virtual reality develop in leaps and bounds, it is augmented reality that reigns supreme in the 2000s. Case in point: the View-Master. (more…)

Augmented Reality Has Arrived and It’s Ready to Be Analyzed! Well, Almost.

Lately, augmented reality has been making a lot of headlines in the tech world. This week, for instance, Microsoft revealed its HoloLens, a visual headset that allows people to interact with and manipulate complex, projected visuals. In a promo for the HoloLens, a woman wearing the headset customizes a Volvo car...

Augmented Reality and Smartphones: Friends or Foes?

Pardon the spatial-rhetorics wordplay here, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the topic at the center of this locative media research group—augmented reality—feels simultaneously like unfamiliar and familiar territory. I have spent a substantial amount of time researching and reflecting on locative media, especially thanks to my time...

Past the Littlefield Fountain: Turning Missing Statues Into Teaching Opportunities

Have you ever been planning a lesson, and the resource you're looking for isn't there? Maybe it's a YouTube video you saw that would be perfect, maybe it's just a simple handout. Either way, a missing resource can be extremely frustrating, especially if you didn't have time to check the...