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Augmented city – grab your 3D glasses for this….

Posted on October 21, 2011 by mandy

…or watch in 2D on YouTube Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

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Immersive Learning: on or off the boil?

Posted on October 9, 2010 by mandy

Immersive Learning was very much on the agenda in Australia in 2008, as this video made by Educationau enthusiastically demonstrates. A group from Gippsland TAFE, in Victoria, drafted a set of protocols for immersive learning here but, like Educationau, the … Continue reading →

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Swinburne University's Koala Island

Posted on June 30, 2010 by mandy

Thrilled to be using Swinburne University’s ‘Koala Island‘ in Second Life for an event with VicRoads. We’ll be  introducing them to virtual environments. Roads, urban planning, their own distributed work force… it  makes sense to start exploring a swag of … Continue reading →

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Aarnet's mixed reality workshop

Posted on September 18, 2009 by mandy

AARnet  is considering a move into hosting virtual environments on its academic research network, and is exploring the idea of creating an  intra-world  for Australia’s research institutions  to whom it supplies superfast connectivity. The workshop (program here) was held at Wollongong University’s new  iC (Innovation … Continue reading →

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Farewell to the 'Web 2.0' era

Posted on August 28, 2009 by mandy

I recall a documentary which traced the global effort to contain the SARS virus. Pathologists were stumped. Their first task was to identify this mysterious killer disease. The Internet played its hand  in enabling real time tracking of the disease. Harnessing the … Continue reading →

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