Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality in the Classroom

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A page to provide tips, tricks, tools, apps, and best practices for the use of augmented and virtual reality in the classroom.

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Article from Augment outlining the differences between augmented and virtual reality.

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AR in Education

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• AR in PreK : Writing numbers 1-9
• How to use AR in the classroom to engage students
• How to start using AR in the classroom
  
• AR brings new dimensions to learning
• Bringing AR into the classroom
• Will Google Glass usher AR into the classroom?
• Augmented reality in the classroom
• Situated documentaries
• Handheld augmented reality project
• Worksheets for the digital age
• ​AR bulletin boards for the classroom​​
• Kathy Schrock: Augmented reality in the classroom​
• 5 ways teachers can use and create AR in the classroom
• 6 amazing ways to use AR in the classroom
• Technology in the classroom: How to use AR
• Apple: AR lesson ideas in education
• Apple: Pop-up classroom workbook (Pages)
• Best AR/VR education apps
• Apple lessons for AR

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Apps for using and creating AR

• 3DBear AR (iOS) (Android)
• Amazing Space Journey (6-12) (iOS | Android)
• Apps for AR in the classroom
• AR Diorama - Qurious Island
• AR Moon - Explore Solar System (iOS)
• AR Makr (iOS- iPad)
• ARize augmented reality (iOS) (Android)
• ARloopa: 3D AR camera (iOS) (Android)
• Assembler studio AR creation (Mac) (Windows)
• Augment (iOS | Android) $
• Catchy Words AR (iOS iPad)
• Chromville (K-5) (iOS | Android)
• Civilisations (iOS) (Android)
• CyberChase Shape Quest! (K-5) (iOS)
• Elements 4D (6-12) (iOS | Android)
• Experience Real History: Alamo (iOS) (Android) $
• EyeJack Creator (Mac) (Windows)
• Fetch! Lunch Rush (K-5) (iOS)
• Google Translate (6-12) (iOS | Android)
• Holo (iOS) (Android)
• Just a Line (iOS)(Android)
• Layar (6-12) (iOS | Android)
• Lego Connect (K-5) (iOS | Android)
• ​Merge Cube (iOS and Android apps)
• Metaverse AR platform (iOS)
• Mondly Language Learning (iOS) (Android)
• Orb (iOS)
• Periodic Table of iOS apps for AR and VR
• Plum's Creaturizer (iOS | Android)
• Qlone (iOS | Android)
• Quiver (K-5) (iOS Android)
• Quiver Education $ (iOS)
• Sandbox AR (iOS iPad only)
• Sky Map (Android)
• Time Pod Adventures (iOS)
• Statue of Liberty (iOS)
• Thyng (iOS) (Android)
• Traces (iOS | Android)
• WebAR
• Zoo-AR (K-5) (iOS Android)​

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Merge Cube AR apps and stuff

Apps

• AnatomyAR+ (iOS) $
• AR Kitten (iOS | Android) $
• Ask Kranky (iOS | Android) $
• Cube Conquest (iOS | Android) $
• CubePaintAR (iOS)
• CyberCube (iOS | Android) $
• Defused! (iOS | Android)
• Dig (iOS | Android)
• DinoDigger (iOS | Android) $
• Elemental Order (iOS | Android) $
• 57° North (iOS | Android) $
• Galactic Explorer (iOS | Android)
• HoloGlobe (Android)
• Invasion (iOS | Android) $
• Mr. Body (iOS | Android)
• Moment AR (iOS | Android) $
• Museum Viewer (Pre-release overview!)
• myARquarium (iOS | Android)
• Mystical Moon (iOS | Android)
• Nexus Box (iOS | Android) $
• Object Viewer (iOS | Android) (Instructions)
• Party Games (iOS | Android)
• Rubik's Cube (iOS | Android) $
• Snake Attack (iOS | Android)
• Th!ngs (iOS | Android)
• Tiltball (iOS | Android)
• Tricky Temple (iOS | Android) $
• Wobble, Wobble (iOS |Android) $

Stuff

• Educator's guide to AR learning with Merge Cube
• Getting started with Merge Cube
• Merge Project Cube printable
• Printing a Merge Cube on a t-shirt
• CoSpaces Add-on for Merge Cube

​Research and more

• Realareal blog
• Pinterest: Augmented reality in education
• Pinterest: Education augmented reality
• How VR/AR will impact business (infographic)
• Ben Ferns: AI-enhanced-AR

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Mixed reality

Mixed reality (MR), sometimes referred to as hybrid reality, is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. (Wikipedia)

• Windows mixed reality
• Zappar mixed reality

VR in Education

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• What is virtual reality?
• VR Videos on YouTube
• Virtual reality in the classroom
• Ten ways to change your classroom with Google Cardboard​
• G+ Google Cardboard for Education group
• Five easy steps to teach with virtual reality now
• Your students can create virtual reality expeditions
• How to create 360° images with Google Street View (iOS)
• Where's Waldo in 360 (Making of the video)
• Google Cardboard in the math classroom
• Google Cardboard apps for the classroom
• 360° cameras for virtual field trips and more
• How VR will democratize learning​
• How VR can close learning gaps in your classroom
• How virtual reality can enhance STEM education
• Google Cardboard in education
• The promise of virtual reality in higher education​
• Virtual reality in the classroom (Schrock)
• Getting started with virtual reality in the classroom
• Google Cardboard in the classroom
• Jump on the virtual reality tour bus
• Getting real? Google Cardboard and VR in Education
• Google's Official VR site
• Haptic interview: Potential of 360° VR
• Vitgo- VR World (public Facebook group)
• VR in Education (public Facebook group)
• Your students can create virtual reality expeditions
• Google Expeditions: Lesson ideas and support for schools
• Creating immersive virtual reality with Story Spheres
• AR/VR in EDU
• Monica Burns eBook: Getting started with VR
• What the research says about VR in the classroom
• The VR Podcast
• The Periodic Table of iOS apps for AR and VR
• CNN-VR: News use of VR
• Campus Technology: How can VR help students learn?

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VR sites and apps to use with students

• 360 Cities (iOS $) (Android) (user-generated content)
• 360 Panorama (iOS)
• ABC News VR
• Anatomyou (iOS) (Android)
• Bubbli (iOS) (user generated content)
• CNN VR
• CoSpaces EDU (creation world) (YT videos) (iOS) (Android)
• DiscoveryVR YouTube videos
• Explain VR: Virtual zoo (iOS)
• Flickr 360° group
• Flickr 360° Images for Schools group
• Flickr Equirectangular group
• Flickr Ricoh Theta S group
• FullDive (iOS) (Android) (user-generated content)
• Google Cardboard Camera (iOS) (Android)
• Google Arts & Culture (iOS) (Android)
• Google Street View (iOS) (Android)
• Google Tour Creator (going away 6/21)
• Guggeheim Museum VR
• Hidden Worlds of the National Parks (hit skip twice)
• Holobuilder (user-generated content)
• iPanorama 360 tour builder for WordPress
• Kuula (user-generated content)
• Littlstar (iOS) (Android) (user-generated content)
• Miniverse
  • Aquarium VR
  • Expedition to the heart of an active volcano
  • Good morning Station! Waking up in space
  • Great hammerhead shark encounter
  • Retrace Sully's landing in the Hudson
  • What happens inside your body?
• ​Orbulus (iOS) (Android)
• Our Solar System VR (Android)
• Panoform (Web 2.0)
• Panorama 360 (Android)
• Roundme (iOS) (Android) (user-generated content)
• Science 360 for tablets
• Sketchfab (iOS) (Android)
• Smithsonian X 3D
• Social studies 360 videos
• Social studies with round.me
• Spincle (iOS)
• Spinnable (user-generated content)
• ​Stereogram for Cardboard (Android)
• Story Spheres by Google
• The Guardian VR (iOS) (Android)
• Timelooper (iOS) (Android)
• USA Today VR stories: Social studies
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Extreme jousting
• Virtual Speech - VR Courses (iOS) (Android)
• Vizor.io (3-D object creation in VR) (iOS)
• VR Cities (iOS) (Android)
• VR Lessons by ThingLink (iOS) $
• VR Stories by USA Today (iOS) (Android)
• VRSE (iOS) (Android)
• VR 3D White House Gallery (iOS $) (Android)
• YT 360° channel (iOS)(Android) (user-generated content)
• YouVisit (iOS) (Android) (user-generated content)

Other VR Apps and related items

• Google Cardboard (iOS) (Android)
• Tilt Brush Gallery (Android)
• Google Cardboard Camera (iOS) (Android)
• Roller Coaster VR (iOS) (Android
• CoSpaces (creation world) (article)
• Best Google Cardboard apps
• SmartVR portable cardboard viewer by Dodocase
• Dodocase pop-up VR viewers classroom set of 20
• How to take 360° spherical panoramas with a cell phone
• Create a 360° panorama with an IPEVO Ziggi-HD camera
• Computer Chronicles: Virtual Reality (1992)
• Blog post: Getting started with 360° photography
• Best Buy for Education classroom sets of VR
• VR apps for the classroom blog post
• Pano View: Chrome extension for viewing 360s​
• Schrock: VR creation checklist (beta)
• WP VR: Wordpress plug-in for showcasing 360° images
• Make your own DIY cardboard headset
• Best AR/VR education apps

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My VR Toolkit

1. iPhone 7+ or iPod Touch (gen 6) with at least 32GB storage
2. Ricoh Theta V camera
   
3. Option: Ricoh Theta SC camera (less video recording time, no live streaming, comes in colors, $50 less)
4. View-Master Virtual Reality Starter Pack or Deluxe VR Viewer
5. Smatree tripod
6. DODOcase SmartVR portable VR viewer - not pictured

​December 2016 article comparing 360° cameras from Wirecutter
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 Ricoh Theta S Specific VR Apps and Info

• Ricoh Theta (iOS) (Android)
• Ricoh Theta+ (iOS) (Android)
• Ricoh Theta+ Video (iOS)
• Theta S Remote for Ricoh Theta Cameras (iOS) $
• Help document for Ricoh Theta I have been helping with
• The Complete Theta Tutorial (eleVR)
• How to use the Ricoh Theta S Camera (Duckworth)
• Homido Player (iOS) (Android): view your local 360° videos
• Kiroru360 (iOS) (Android) view your local Theta creations
• How to get Ricoh Theta S/SC videos to YouTube

Hosting sites

• 360 cities - hosting photospheres and 360° images
• Bubbli (iOS)​
• Dermandar - hosting photospheres and 360° images
• Holobuilder - hosting photospheres and 360° images
• HugVR - live streaming (iOS)
• Kiroru 360 (iOS) - viewing your own images
• Kuula - image hosting and Cardboard viewing
• LittlStar - (iOS) (Android) - hosting/viewing images and videos
• makevt.com - hosting of panoramas
• Momento360 - hosting and viewing of images and videos
• Round.me (iOS) (Android) - hosting and viewing images
• Spinnable (iOS) - hosting and viewing with Cardboard
• Vimeo 360 - hosting and viewing 360° videos
• YouVisit - hosting of panoramic photos and viewing

http://kuula.co embedding

Embedded from ThingLink VR site.

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Cape Cod Garden Tour from Kathy Schrock on Vimeo.

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Research

    Bolton

• Why virtual reality education is the next frontier for classrooms

     Sinclair and Gunhouse

• The promise of virtual reality in higher education

     NMC Horizon Report 2016: Higher Education

• Augmented and virtual reality (p.40)

     NMC/CoSN Horizon Report 2016: K-12

• Virtual reality (p. 42)

     Samsung Survey

• Is virtual reality ready for the classroom?

​      Infographic

• How VR/AR will impact business (infographic)

       Nashville Public Schools

• Cultivating new levels of student engagement with VR
• Podcast

Sites and links included in VR presentation

• Augment definition of virtual reality
• Student engagement using VR
• Samsung VR survey results (June 2016)
• Types of virtual reality
  • Fully immersive sample
  • Non-immersive sample
  • Collaborative sample
  • VRML sample 1
  • VRML sample 2
  • Augmented reality sample
• Components for immersive virtual reality
• Student excitement Google Expeditions video
• Mak: Your students can create virtual reality expeditions
• HMD: Google Cardboard | View-Master VR Viewer
• Educational VR projects
  • Discovery VR
  • Google Expeditions (TES page)
  • Thinglink VR
• Equipment/apps for creating and hosting
  • Ricoh Theta V camera
    
  • Smatree Tripod
  • Giroptic 360 camera
  • 360 Panorama app (iOS)
  • Google Street View app (iOS) (Android)
  • Round.me image hosting (iOS app)
  • Littlstar image and video hosting (iOS) (Android)

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Tech Tools Daily interview at ISTE 2016 

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​Google's April Fool's Day 2016 VR prank

• Google Cardboard Plastic

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Created: 05/06/2014
Updated: 07/20/2022
Kathy Schrock
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