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Evaluating multidimensional spatial interfaces in training environments
Alla Kitov passed her viva at Oxford Brookes University today, November 21, 2024. Alla worked on user experience and usability evaluation methods, validating a new instrument, SPINE, for the evaluation of Smart Glasses spatial interaction capabilities. As part of her thesis, Alla conducted large-scale studies in space, medicine, and aviation.…
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Learning Innovation Summit 2024
While AI-powered services and XR enhance learning environments, issues like digital inequality and limited access to smart devices persist. Fridolin Wild reviewed recent advancements in ’embedded learning’ and human-computer interaction, showcasing research from the Performance Augmentation Lab at The Open University in a keynote to attendees of the Learning Innovation…
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XR in technical communication
Prof Wild gave a guest lecture to Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine, focused on opportunities and challenges for XR with a focus on technical communication and the means and facilities to support translation in XR-enabled product use information. Technical communication is a context, where high-quality translation is the key to…
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PAL helps secure £5.8M funding for OpenXR Studios for the Open University
The Open University (OU) has secured funding of £5.8m from the Office for Students to develop extended reality studios to expand its teaching and learning with augmented and virtual reality, featuring Prof Wild on the management team and steering group, and as part of the bid writing team. The Open…
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Impact of AR on training highly dexterous tasks
We are currently evaluating the impact of Augmented Reality on training in the manufacturing of composites, comparing AR mobile tablet computer and smart glasses use in a control group setup with classic written instruction. The project ERADEX, funded by the Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance as part of its enterprise AR…
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Standards+Innovation Award 2022 of CEN
The ARETE project received the CEN/CENELEC Standards+Innovation Award 2022 for Best Research Project under its designated Standards Manager, Prof Fridolin Wild. ARETE, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework program, develops a Europe-wide competitive ecosystem that supports the dissemination of Augmented Reality content in education, with…
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CEN workshop on ‘eXtended Reality for Learning and Performance Augmentation’
eXtended Reality (XR) is the umbrella for Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality (VR/MR/AR), relating in varying degree from the use of digital overlays to fully rendered immersive alternate views of a physical world, where objects are registered in 3D and user interaction is responsive to the user’s surrounding in real-time.…
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MirageXR 1.9 released
We have released a new version of MirageXR, the Open Source Moodle-compatible Augmented Reality authoring and learning tool, following a longer refactoring process. The apps for iOS, Android, Hololens 1, and Hololens 2 are now much faster, following the re-write of the core of the experience engine, also preparing for…
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Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona
Prof Dr Fridolin Wild gave a keynote at ISE Barcelona on May 11, speaking about how modern AR can benefit learning in the Metaverse, using motion capture and real-time transmission to create, what he calls ‘demi-sync’, an experience delivered in real-time that feels alive, although it executes an adaptive workflow…
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Rapid Reskilling for Textiles & Clothing Businesses
Fridolin Wild presented an invited keynote to the TCBL days conference on November 18, 2021, about “Rapid reskilling for Textiles & Clothing businesses using eXtended Reality”.