An introduction to a new technology that adds a layer of useful information to computer and smartphone camera screens
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Mashable - Blog - 10 Awesome Uses of Augmented Reality Marketing - 2 views
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Visuals are an important part of advertising, so it's not surprising that so many companies have jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon, offering tools that visualize their products in a magical and memorable way. Here we take a look at some pretty amazing promotional uses of this new tech that work with common webcams, giving everyone a chance to experience augmented reality - a trend that will be big in 2010.
Gesture-Based Computing - 5 views
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Devices that can accept multiple simultaneous inputs (like using two fingers on the Apple iPhone or the Microsoft Surface to zoom in or out) and gesture-based inputs like those used on the Nintendo Wii have begun to change the way we interact with computers.
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The sentence expresses numerous examples of today's technology that incorporate gesture based computing.
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Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in virtual activities with motion and movement similar to what they would use in the real world.
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The sentence briefly describes the definition of gesture based computing.
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A number of mobile applications use gestures. Mover lets users flick files from one phone to another; Shut Up, an app from Nokia, silences the phone when the user turns it upside down; nAlertme, an antitheft app, sounds an alarm if the phone isn't shaken in a specific, preset way:
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The sentence describes various computer applications that are involved with gesture based computing.
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This article describes a basic definition of gesture based computing and provides its readers with technology and applications that are equipped with this feature.
GM's Awesome Augmented Reality Windshield [VIDEO] - 4 views
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an ordinary windshield into an augmented reality information dashboard.
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improve safety
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advance knowledge behind the wheel
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Mobile Computing - 4 views
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AtBentley, there's network access across campus and in the residence halls; utilizing wireless when on the go, and plugging in when you are in need of the high speed wired access. (Mobile computing benefiting education, colleges even handout technology for student use)
Parkinson's Patients Go to Wii-hab | LiveScience - 3 views
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Using the Wii's technology can help improve the condition of patients with Parkinson's.
Bill MacKenty - Educational Technology - 3 views
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Video games in education
Visual Data Analysis - 3 views
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facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption.
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This is the basic definintion of visual data analysis
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Some of these tools, such as Visokio Omniscope, are powerful hybrid desktop/web visualisation clients that can replace spreadsheets, presentation packages like PowerPoint, and create portable, reusable data files anyone can access, navigate and filter using a free viewer.
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These are some ways that visual data analysis is changing our world.
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enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions.
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Visual data analysis facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption. Visual data analysis enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions. Visual data analysis may build upon prior logical processing via mathematical formulas, artificial intelligence or other automated mechanisms for analysis and improving data quality. Strictly speaking, visual data analysis primarily focuses on visual presentation of tabular views ready for human consumption.
100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips - Online Colleges - 3 views
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Just like physicians, the best educators stay informed with the latest developments in their field. Luckily, it doesn't take anything more than time to have access to quality journals for educators. The following open access journals provide top-notch scholarly information available at no cost.
Free Technology for Teachers: Augmented Reality in Plain English - 5 views
Apple's iPad: The Future of Mobile Computing in Education? -- Campus Technology - 3 views
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ipad as new revolution in mobile computing
Virtual eye Dissection: The Anatomy of an Eye - 3 views
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Free way to use Augmented Reality in school
The future, it is all a Gesture - Bruce On Games - 3 views
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technology continues to roll on and mankind has used it’s ingenuity to come up with a whole new sort of man/machine interface. It is called Gesture. And it is not an acronym, it really does mean interfacing by human gesture. And it is one of the hottest areas of technology just now.
Wikibooks - 3 views
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Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
The State of the Electronic Book on Vimeo - 2 views
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A great video about electronic books and what's happening in this area ! It discusses devices and how they've change and how they will change and much much more
TED Blog: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense on TED.com - 2 views
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This demo, from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT (and spearheaded by her student Pranav Mistry), was the buzz of TED2009. Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. (Recorded in February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 08:42.)
Textbooks Are Finished - 2 views
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Includes additional articles by Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway that may be relevant to other teams.
