### *Education on the Horizon: Teaching and Learning with Technology*
## Week 7: Embodied Learning with XR
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#### Dr. Yizhen (Eejain) Huang
###### Department Erziehungswissenschaft, University of Potsdam
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### Clarification of Terms
VR, XR, MR, Metaverse?
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### Virtuality vs. Reality
- Virtuality is commonly regarded as a self-consistent, fully synthetic world that doesn't have to follow the laws of physics of real world.
- Virtuality and reality are not opposites, but more like two ends of a continuum
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### Mixed Reality (MR)
- Real and virtual world objects are presented and experienced together within a single display.
- [Apple Vision Pro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg&t=99s)
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### Extended Reality (XR)
- An emerging umbrella term for all the immersive technologies, the ones we already have today plus those that are still to be created.
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### Metaverse
- XR-supported social networking
- [Introducing the Metaverse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjNI9K1D_xo)
- [Introducing the Icelandverse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI)
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### VR the technology
VR app → Game Engine → VR head-mounted device (HMD)
 
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### VR the experience
- VR is the virtual recreation of the physical reality we live in.
- VR > Virtuality / Reality
 
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### VR > Virtuality
 
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[Rubber hand illusion](https://youtu.be/k5c9Jb9SK58?t=38)
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### VR > Virtuality
- VR experience is "embodied" through the virtual body ("avatar")
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### VR > Reality
 
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[VR classroom](https://mediaup.uni-potsdam.de/flash/2hhGD6ED_hi.mp4)
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### VR > Reality
- Controlled, standardized, individualized environment
- Step-wise training
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### Demo: Immersive VR
- multi-sensory realistic experience inside an virtual environment
- ideal for training situational, adaptive, and complex skills
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### Demo: 360 video
- [360 video](https://artsandculture.google.com/project/360-videos)
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### Demo: Augmented reality
- augmenting a real world experience with virtual objects.
+ [Learning to draw with AR](https://youtu.be/pNkG5HN4bgY?t=462)
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### Demo: Augmented virtuality
- augmenting an virtual experience with real-life objects.
- [Learning with Google Earth](https://www.google.com/earth/education/)