Saturday, June 28, 2008

Augmented Reality Videos Show Promise for Learning Applications

One of the exciting developing technologies for instructional designers and other educators is augmented reality. There are a couple of YouTube movies that provide a short intro.

Beyond Tomorrow (Augmented Reality) shows the basic idea of AR and demonstrates immediate applications for learning for children with AR storybooks.



Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality demos superimposing the SL client, avatars, and other SL graphics on a video or in real time. This is really kool as the SL environment is becoming familiar to many people these days! Follow up information at the AR Second Life site at Georgia Tech.

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