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Cleaning Things Up: Standards Redux

by Len Scrogan

In this final instalment in our series about technical hygiene in the Covidian Era, we provide some blunt musings about Covid-aware hygiene standards, especially national and industry-specific standards. Come along with us for an …

Tags:Education| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Theme Parks and Amusements| Virtual Reality

Cleaning Things Up III: Technical Hygiene Standards

by Len Scrogan

As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces …

Tags:Covid-19| Education| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| display technology| Education| Keyboards| Virtual Reality

Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

Having borrowed the gear nearly a week beforehand, I finally found some disposable time to sit down and give my son’s Oculus Quest VR a robust test drive. I was so looking forward to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

More Tales from the Pandemic (Pain Points in Education, Part I)

by Len Scrogan

It’s apparent to most of us that education systems across the world are going through particularly difficult times these days. Blame the Pandemic. And I can’t seem to erase the image out of my …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| Virtual Reality

ISTE 2020 Conference Preview

by Len Scrogan

Every year I provide a conference session analysis of this respected conference for our readers, and this year will be no different. By examining the panoply of ISTE 2020 conference sessions (600 in all), …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| Virtual Reality

Thinking about Educational VR/AR in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

There’s always something in the air these days. Here in Colorado, it was just another smoky day, the hazy high-altitude air filled with particulates from the many forest fires actively burning in our mountains. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| Virtual Reality

Basta Ya! Meditations on Returning to Normal

by Len Scrogan

I keep wondering when things will return to normal. Pre-covid normal, that is. I yearn for more. So much more. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I long to experience the incessant hawking …

Tags:Covid-19| display technology

Bias and Ethics in Spatial Computing

by Len Scrogan

It seems like ethics are often an afterthought in our permissionless race towards more and better technology. And the more ubiquitous a given technology becomes, the more our senses are dulled to any Mr. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Enablers of K12 School Technology Innovation

by Len Scrogan

The COSN 2020 K12 Driving Innovation: Technology Enablers report, after multiple rounds of Delphi-like voting by more than 102 members of their International Advisory Board of distinguished educational technology experts, has a lot to …

Tags:Education

What to Expect in Education

by Len Scrogan

In the last three or four months I have offered a panoply of predictions about what we can expect when doing business in the education market amidst a covid and post-covid environment. Some of …

Tags:Covid-19| Education