GOODBYE!

I wish you all good luck on your finals and hope that you have a happy holidays! I enjoyed this semester with you all in Collaborative Computing and hope to see you in another one of Professor Walsh's classes! Best of luck everyone! 

This blog of mine is for my Immersive Education class at Boston College. This semester I took Collaborative Computing with Professor Walsh and explored all of the collaborative computing platforms, technologies and many other things this semester. We learned about virtual reality and how it allows people to collaborate among various computing platforms. For more on Immersive Education at Boston College go to http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc.

FINAL STEP 8: GOOGLE FOLDERS

FINAL STEP 7: GOOGLE DOCUMENTS

FINAL STEP 6: EMBEDDING VIMEO

This group of Untethered people walk across these lines thousands of feet in the air free solo. They are experiencing the unthinkable. This video's cinematography  makes it that much more intriguing to watch. As it is incredibly nail biting to watch, it is incredible watching these people cross the world record of walking the longest distance on a rope. I think that it is amazing and incredibly interesting to watch these people do this unthinkable activity.

FINAL STEP 5: EMBEDDING YOUTUBE

The Samsung Gear VR allows this father to experience the birth of his third child during a virtual birth with his wife. This father is away from home working for his family, and now Samsung VR brought this family together virtually allowing the father to be able to experience his child's birth. I think that this technology is the next best thing, allowing families to be together during experiences like this. The Samsung Gear VR created the first virtual birth, allowing this family to be able to share this experience together in a 360 degree view. Not only was the father able to watch it, it was like he was present there in the same room while wearing the headset. This incredible technology is very advanced and allows for so many things to be possible.

Microsoft HoloLens has enabled us to visual our work through holograms. I think that these new ways of sharing ideas allow us to change the way we see the world. Microsoft HoloLens gives us more immersive ways to teach and learn across the world. Collaboration is expanded and it gives us more opportunities to explore various places in the world through holograms. I think that it is amazing that Microsoft HoloLens allows us to create things that we previously had only imagined.

Immersive Education has showed us on iED Buzz the various technologies that companies are coming out with today and in the future. They are showing us what we are capable of being able to do in the future and even today with technologies like The Samsung Gear VR and Microsoft HoloLens. iED Buzz shows us the future we have. Immersive Education is only a step toward the future of the amazing technologies on their way.

FINAL STEP 4: GOOGLE HANGOUTS

In a Google Hangout with Sebastian, using text chat as well as posting a photo. 

In an audio call in Google Hangouts with Sebastian. 

FINAL STEP 3: AUDIO WHITEBOARD

Here is a screenshot of the Audio Whiteboard meeting that I created. My microphone is turned on so that I can chat by voice. I uploaded a photo of the Christmas tree to show how I can insert a photo as well as using the text chat feature. Happy Holiday's Everyone!