Category: Augmented Reality
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ACM curriculum proposal for teaching AR
Fridolin Wild presented the new ACM model AR curriculum proposal as part of the AR Education Global Webinar organised by CodeReality on December 7. The webinar was introduced by a keynote about “Augmented Reality Education” by Mark Billinghurst, Director of the Emphatic Computing Lab of the University of South Australia…
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Panel discussion with the key forces in the US
Fridolin Wild presented a keynote and participated in a panel on December 2 about the IEEE Augmented Reality Learning Experience Model at I/ITSEC, originally planned to take place in Florida/US, but taking place virtually. He was joined on the panel by Christine Perey, Independent Analyst & Spime Wrangler of Perey…
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Electronic Visualisation & the Arts
Carl Smith from Ravensbourne University and CodeReality organised a showcase to which we participated, exploring Mixed Reality through a series of dedicated virtual rooms that will house discussions, demos as well as multiple novel types of Mixed Reality, featuring a number of MR and XR practitioners including Carl Hayden Smith,…
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Innovating Higher Education in Italy
Fridolin Wild gave a keynote about ‘Learning in the Real World with Performance Augmentation’ on October 30 at the Innovating Higher Education (IHE2020) online bridging event of the EADTU, the leading institutional network for innovative online, open and flexible universities, originally planned to take place in Bari, Italy, but now…
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Awareness, Adoption and Acceptance of Augmented and Virtual Reality at the EC
Prof Dr Fridolin Wild had the opportunity to give the opening keynote on October 23 at the workshop on interactive technologies organised by the European Commission DG Connect with focus on “Awareness, Adoption and Acceptance”. He was asked to provide a thought-provoking piece that stimulates thinking about the next funding…
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E-Technologies for Engineering Education in Poland
Prof Dr Fridolin Wild gave a keynote to eTEE on September 24, originally planned to take place in Krakow. eTEE the key event on E-Technologies for Engineering Education in Poland and this virtual ‘pandemic edition’ was attended by 150 people from across Poland.
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iLRN keynote about AR – in VR
Freshly appointed to IET as new chair, Prof Dr Fridolin Wild gave a featured plenary presentation on Monday morning, June 22nd, at the 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN’20. Fridolin was speaking about how Augmented Reality promises to provide significant boosts to performance by making information…
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An AR model curriculum for the ACM
Gathering luminaries of the field, we have contributed to elaborating a first draft proposal for a model curriculum for teaching Augmented Reality in Computer Science education (and related disciplines). The draft is currently in review and is available from Fridolin upon request. The AR curriculum is broken into core and…
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Finalist for Auggie Awards 2020
The UNBODY project, created in a collaboration with the Performance Augmentation Laboratory during its time at Oxford Brookes University, was selected into the finals in the category best AR arts / film for this year’s Auggie Awards at Augmented World Expo (AWE) in California, the leading AR/VR event in the…
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New H2020 project: ARETE
The Open University has joined the ARETE consortium with June 1, 2020, now leading the development of the Interactive Augmented Reality Toolkit. Augmented Reality Interactive Educational System (ARETE) started on November 1, 2019, and is running through to 30 April 2023, supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 framework with…