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…
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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…
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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…
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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”.
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Fridolin Wild attended a reception in honor of the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz and First Lady Gwen Walz on invitation of the US ambassador to the UK on November 15, 2021.
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The world is changing and the Educational Metaverse is coming. The future of learning is in the overlay reality, where the real-world surrounding us is augmented using wearables, liberating learners from decades of being tied to their screens. ‘Learning in…
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November 2 and 3, 2021, saw the 5th General Assembly of the ARETE project take place in beautiful San Sebastian, Spain. The project is progressing well, with four pilots in schools across Europe being prepared, and AR pilot apps being…
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On 14 October, 2021, Fridolin Wild participated in an expert panel as part of the policy-focused event “XR in the classroom” on invitation of the IEEE’s Global Initiative for Ethical Extended Reality. The event put the ethics of XR-and-education in…
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A new metric scale for measuring trust towards holographic intelligent agents was presented on the workshop of Beyond Questionnaires: Innovative Approaches to Evaluating Mixed Reality of the BHCI’21 conference by Xinyu Huang and Prof. Dr. Fridolin Wild. They identified, selected,…
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On 14th June, Xinyu Huang and Prof. Dr. Fridolin Wild contributed to the 1st international workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Education (part of AIED’21) with a comparative analysis across nine intelligent, holographic agents, extracting common design dimensions into a…
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