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Okay, technically it is only a subcommitte of Congress… but still… a meeting in second life.  I’m not sure if I should be afraid, or excited… what do you think?

For those of you who have been following the Second-Life alternative, Croquet, you will be interested to know that a new (very early) release of the next build, Cobalt is now available. You can download it here.
You can read more about the new build here. The graphics are much improved and the interface also looks [...]

The whole review deserves a look, but I especially like the part below.

This is so true. If we don’t get behind this device and push it, it may just fade into the background as something that was a great idea, but never got off the ground..

So a colleague of mine asked if I had come across any unique uses of the Wii… I had indeed and thought I would post my findings here as well. Here are the video’s. Isn’t it AMAZING! (Note: The first three are from Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University and the [...]

A couple of months ago I heard about a monkey that could control a computer with their brain.  Here is a video. 

Of course this required implanted electrical nodes in the monkey’s brain and months, if not years, of learning the monkey’s brain-waves and then mapping them. Not really possible for humans yet.
Then [...]

Novint has been previewing their new Pistol Grip at the Gamers Conference this past week for the Novint Falcon. The cost has gone down even further for the Falcon.  $189 for the device.  and $20 for the extra gun handgrip.  Now, I openly admit that the new Pistol Grip has no real educational value… [...]

So I have emerged from the depths of research and work. We have this great program at UNC-CH that allows staff to take classes for free. I decided to take advantage of that this past semester and enrolled in a Human Computer Interaction class taught by Gary Marchionini in the School of Information [...]

So the release of Google’s new mobile Android platform is a couple of days old now, but I just finally found some time to read up about it and see a demo. Let’s start with that. (Note, you can skip the first minute and just go onto the demo…)

Well… I’m sad there is no [...]

The ELI conference started out yesterday with a fantastic presentation by Rick VanEck of University of North Dakota.  As all great presenters at the beginning of a conference do, he laid out a vision of the conference and why it is important.  As the focus of the conference is immersive learning environments, the title of [...]

I am sitting in another session of the ELI Conference given by Gary Bertoline of Perdue University right now and just had an AMAZING experience with an Haptic device.  I am assuming that since I didn’t know about this before some of you don’t either. 
Haptic devices are basically connecting the virtual world to the [...]