Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality – what you need to know why you need to know it!
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The document provides an overview of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies, emphasizing their significance in academic libraries for research and education. It discusses various applications, advancements in the field, and the potential of these technologies to enhance learning experiences while addressing the challenges faced by users and institutions. The role of libraries is highlighted as a crucial facilitator in the integration and accessibility of these immersive technologies across disciplines.
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Practitioners actively using it…
“I love helping people with anxiety or fears because
they can improve quickly…. Virtual reality [delivers]
faster, more effective treatment using realistic
simulations of stressful situations. I offer virtual
reality therapy as part of treatment for: fear of
flying, fear of heights, fear of driving, needle
phobia (fear of needles, injections, donating blood,
or medical procedures), fear of public speaking, job
interview anxiety, fear of enclosed spaces, elevators
or public transit, and fear of spiders or
cockroaches….” VR: Should it become best practice for Exposure?
APA TMS Conference, 2019
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Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality – what you need to know why you need to know it!
- 1. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality – what you need to know why you need to know it! – update from last year What you need to know and why it belongs in the library Charleston Conference, November, 2019 1CoherentDigital.net Confidential
- 2. 2CoherentDigital.net Confidential What is XR? Reality Augmented Reality - Overlays information on the real world - No spatial awareness Mixed Reality - Mixes digital content with the real world - Reacts and responds to your space Virtual Reality - Entirely new world - Occludes your vision The Real World Computer Generated World
- 3. 3CoherentDigital.net Confidential When something is: • Needs to be seen in 3 dimensions • Needs to be seen in situ • Needs rich or distant interaction • Needs perspective • Needs spatial context • Needs immersion • Too dangerous • Too small or too large • Too precious • Too complex • Inaccessible, • Too hard or expensive to get to When is VR Needed? Immersion Interactivity
- 4. 4CoherentDigital.net Confidential Press reports that VR is in trouble…
- 5. 5CoherentDigital.net Confidential Special Software Autodesk Suite – CAD/CAM, 3D models, animation, XR, simulations Blender– Open Source, 3D models, animation, VR, simulations Unity & Unreal – leaders in VR world creation Google Blocks, SketchUp and MS Paint 3D – simple, easy to use modeling
- 6. 6CoherentDigital.net Confidential • VR devices: Deploy VR easily across Oculus Rift ($399), Go ($199), HTC Vive ($499) and MS Hololens ($3,000) • Mobile Platform: Ability to view 3D/VR content via mobile platforms (Android/iOS) using glasses like Google Cardboard and Samsung VR. (<$100) • Immersive Virtual Environments: CAVE, holographic projection (>$10k) • 3D printing: print objects from STL files where appropriate ($500- $50k) • Standard PC or Mac Browsers: Ability to view, browse, rotate, embed 3D/VR content using standard keyboard and mouse Special Hardware
- 7. 7CoherentDigital.net Confidential Lots of incompatibilities… Application Application Interface Hardware Headsets
- 8. 8CoherentDigital.net Confidential …just like it used to be with PCs/Macs etc…. Apple Mac Wang Application tied to… dedicated operating system tied to… dedicated Hardware WordPerfect/IB M/MS-DOS
- 9. 9CoherentDigital.net Confidential So, what’s the prognosis?
- 10. 10CoherentDigital.net Confidential Overall the market is growing…
- 11. 11CoherentDigital.net Confidential Since 2000 XR research has grown a steady 10%+ per year… What’s happening in academic research? # of Citations in Google Scholar Year
- 13. 13CoherentDigital.net Confidential Tech is improving all the time…
- 14. 14CoherentDigital.net Confidential The use cases are real… 1 4 Journalism (USC) Anthropology (Duke University) Medicine (Rowan University) Virtual Tours (Boise State University) Sculpture (Franklin Institute) Engineering (Lewis & Clark C. College) Urban Studies (U. Minnesota, Duluth) Psychology (Stanford University) Mathematics (Stockton University) Architecture (St. Thomas University) Art & Design (Carnegie Mellon University) Biology (Arizona State University) Chemistry (University of Oklahoma) Theatre (University of Kansas) Education (U. North Texas) Dance (U. Minnesota, Duluth) Physics (Virginia Tech) Archaeology (Oxford University)
- 15. 15CoherentDigital.net Confidential Focus on counseling & social work Multiple meta- studies show efficacy in a wide range of scenarios
- 16. 16CoherentDigital.net Confidential Practitioners actively using it… “I love helping people with anxiety or fears because they can improve quickly…. Virtual reality [delivers] faster, more effective treatment using realistic simulations of stressful situations. I offer virtual reality therapy as part of treatment for: fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of driving, needle phobia (fear of needles, injections, donating blood, or medical procedures), fear of public speaking, job interview anxiety, fear of enclosed spaces, elevators or public transit, and fear of spiders or cockroaches….” VR: Should it become best practice for Exposure? APA TMS Conference, 2019 Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, PhD, Practicing Therapist
- 17. 17CoherentDigital.net Confidential VR: Should it become best practice for Exposure? APA TMS Conference, 2019 Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, PhD, Practicing Therapist • Uniquely suited for accepted, effective exposure, immersive, evocative, ”real” • Intensity & pace of exposure are controlled and tailored to client needs while you guide, support and mentor • Aspects of the feared situation can be manipulated in ways impossible in real life while protecting confidentiality Practitioners actively using it…
- 18. 18CoherentDigital.net Confidential • Examined use of VR in counseling, social work and mental health • Identified >50 commercial organizations with combined funding >$500m • 64 universities who’ve created over 200 applications • Research is continuing – contact Elizabeth Robey for details - eroby@coherentdigital.net Our Research…
- 19. 19CoherentDigital.net Confidential The library has much to contribute! • Sharing • Physical Presence • Standards • Curation • Discovery • Licensing • Tagging • Access • Preservation • Dissemination • Open Access
- 20. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality – what you need to know why you need to know it! – update from last year Carl Grant, Dean (Interim) of Libraries Charleston Conferences, October 2019
- 21. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? • Librarianship, broadly considered: • Librarians / Resources (facilities, materials, expertise) • We support the creation, access, interaction, distribution, and archiving of information and knowledge, in all formats. • 3D is just another format! • VR/AR/MR/3D printing are just new tools for interacting with 3D objects. Why the Library? Vision / Mission
- 22. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? https://www.clir.org/2019/02/new-report-explores-leading-role-for- academic-libraries-in-supporting-3d-vr-for-research-and-teaching/ “Because 3D and VR/AR are such cross-disciplinary practices, academic libraries may be the ideal place to facilitate communication around their critical and creative use.”Page 9. “Libraries are promoting democratized access to 3D assets as a means of providing new forms of knowledge to the scholarly community.”Page 24. Vision / Mission
- 23. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? • Intellectual Crossroads of the University / campus hub / heart / center: • No cost limitations for smaller departments. • No agendas, we’re the “Switzerland” of a campus • Facilitate collaborations and interdisciplinary work Vision / Mission Why the Library?
- 24. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? https://www.clir.org/2019/02/new-report-explores-leading-role-for- academic-libraries-in-supporting-3d-vr-for-research-and-teaching/ “Developing these new skills and collaborations around emerging technologies such as 3D/VR can potentially enhance the profile and maintain the relevance of the academic library both as the custodian and curator of all forms of research and educational data, and as a catalyst for innovation in scholarship and pedagogy at the heart of the twenty-first- century university.”Page 9. Vision / Mission
- 25. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Provides access to: • Hard to reach or see content • Fragile, destroyed, distant, microscopic, protected, sociologically relevant, etc. • First-hand, unmediated learning experiences with challenging objects Limp, Fred, Angie Payne, Katie Simon, Snow Winters, and Jack Cothren. "Developing a 3-D digital heritage ecosystem: From object to representation and the role of a virtual museum in the 21st century." Internet Archaeology30 (2011). Vision / Mission
- 26. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? 3D - VR/AR/MR – Why the Library?
- 27. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? 3D - VR/AR/MR – Why the Library?
- 28. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? “Massive and complex data sets – no matter how content-rich or how expensively obtained – are of no use if we cannot discover interesting patterns in them” (Donaleket al. 2014) ▪ Software: Virtualitics 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 29. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 30. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? OU College of Law Crime scene replication in VR 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 31. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? OU College of Law Crime scene replication in VR 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 32. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Which can them be pushed directly to one of our VR stations in the Library. We also use Leganto to embed 3D models directly into Canvas courses. 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 33. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? ▪ Required Assignment • Hominid Fossil Comparison • Morphosource/African • Fossils/Sketchfab ▪ 80+ Undergraduate recruited. ~40 participants. • “… significant positive impact on self-efficacy along dimensions related to completion of spatial tasks...” (Lischer-Katz, Cook, and Boulden2018) ▪ VR-specific benefits • Access • Analysis Lischer-Katz, Zack, Matt Cook, and Kristal Boulden. "Evaluating the impact of a virtual reality workstation in an academic library: Methodology and preliminary findings." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 1 (2018): 300-308. 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 34. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Portals • Arizona archaic caves • Syrian Ruins @ Palmyra • Live Sea Turtles • Events are: • MOOC-sized • Asynchronous • Multi-platform • Mobile phones • Oculus GO • HTC Vive • Feature: • Expert guided tour of inaccessible content with: • Archaeologist • Historian • Biologist 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 35. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Infinite “Clay” for sculpting Unlimited reference images Robust Import/Export Options 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 36. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories Flexible 3D materials have many uses! Example: Ears that better simulate ear canal based on real ear canal impressions. Practice on a model rather than real human!
- 37. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? AT&T/Magic Leap 5G Hackathon 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 38. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Birds Exhibit Mobile apps that bring pictures in exhibits to life ● Uses open source tools ● For library and museum exhibitions; recognizes objects, provides additional information. ● First planned use: a forthcoming birds exhibition, where 3D images of birds can be expanded, rotated, examined & bird-songs played for that particular bird.
- 39. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? ArtEDGE 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 40. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Accessibility Leaders in VR by Conducting Working Groups: ● XR Access.org ○ Education focus ● DLF: Digital Accessibility ○ Tech focus ● Techlahoma ○ Awareness & outreach focus ● XR Association ○ Framework for the future focus 3D - VR/AR/MR – Library Impact Stories
- 41. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Metrics • 522 participants via class integrations • 300+ workshop participants. • All 13 Colleges now have at least one course taught that has assignments to. be completed using 3D objects. • 104K in grant money secured in 2018 2018 • 500 participants via class integrations • 100+ workshop participants • In 11 of the 13 Colleges, at least one course is taught that has assignments to be completed using 3D objects. • 95K in grant money secured in 2017. 2017
- 42. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Press Coverage
- 43. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? https://www.clir.org/2019/02/new-report-explores-leading-role-for- academic-libraries-in-supporting-3d-vr-for-research-and-teaching/ More information? https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2018/technologyandtrends/3/
- 44. What will you do at the intellectual crossroads of the University of Oklahoma? Carl Grant Dean (Interim) University of Oklahoma Libraries carl.grant@ou.edu P: 540.449.2418 Conclusion