Saturday 1 September 2007

SL in glorious stereoscopic 3D

We have put SL through our 3D stereoscopic system using a cloning software and the environment works beautifully. The world appears rich with loads of depth and gives you a whole new viewing experience of SL. I imagine this will be a great addition to a class using SL so that when the facilitator wants to emphasize a point they can bring the pupils together to view SL in stereo with the glasses on and create a memory hook with that exaggerated experience for the students to hang the information on.

SLCC

Well what can I say about SLCC? I think 'organic' would be my main description. An emerging world using emerging technologies run by an emerging company and loads of academics and entrepreneurs tending the growth of the whole thing. And that was how it felt at SLCC, networks growing, ideas growing, things fitting together but all in a fairly seemingly random way. The first day was a bit like the first day at college when you know no one and a beer is required to pluck up courage to dive into the groups that obviously already know each other.
I was encouraged by the direction most of the educational speakers were going in and on the last day i got an invite to look around the Chicago VRLab to see what 3D stereoscopic technology they are working on. The trip was very worthwhile and very tiring - glad to be back...