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“Lab Lockdown” plunges you into a virtual escape room set within a locked laboratory. In this immersive VR experience, you’ll utilize your chemistry skills to decipher clues, interact with objects, and solve complex problems—all while racing against the clock to secure your escape. Launching April 24, 2024. Poster Artist Catherine Plotnikov #animation #art #3d #3dmodeling #game #gamedev #unity3d #maya #mdc As a peer academic leader (PAL) at Miami Dade College’s STEM center, you’ve been tasked with proving your chemistry prowess by successfully escaping the confines of a locked lab within 30 minutes. Your objective: conquer two distinct rooms, each presenting unique challenges and puzzles crucial for your escape. Embark on a thrilling educational journey where your knowledge of chemistry becomes your key to freedom. Engage with interactive elements, unravel mysteries, and crack codes to unlock the door to academic victory. “Lab Lockdown” blends immersive gameplay with educational challenges, offering an exhilarating test of intellect and ingenuity

School is always exciting when unexpected connections between projects elevate learning! This week, our MYP Grade 7 students worked on an interdisciplinary unit between Individuals & Societies and Visual Art, building sculptures inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Their work caught the attention of our Grade 10 Immersive Story Design team. We saw the perfect opportunity to integrate 3D scanning technology and bring these sculptures to life in our VR world. To facilitate this, I curated resources that explored the impact of 3D scanning across various industries, such as engineering, manufacturing, medicine, and entertainment. Students chose their 3D scanning apps, experimented with settings, and had a blast digitizing the Grade 7 sculptures. These digital scans will soon become part of their immersive VR story, blending art, technology, and storytelling in a powerful transdisciplinary inquiry! Resource link: https://lnkd.in/gdshfTfd #InterdisciplinaryLearning #VisualArtAndTech #3DScanning #VRStorytelling #TransdisciplinaryInquiry #ArtAndTechnology #InnovativeLearning #STEM #DigitalArtInEducation #MYPDesign #EdTech #RealityScan #RealityComposer #Scaniverse #Polycam #Epicgames

Ever find centrifugal pumps a tough sell in the classroom? It's a widespread challenge. It's a tough topic, packed with intricate mechanics and complex operations that can baffle even the brightest minds. But what if we said #VirtualReality could be your game-changer? VR breaks down complex concepts into interactive experiences, allowing students to witness each mechanism in action — something that textbooks just can't offer. Are you looking to redefine the teaching of engineering principles and forge a deeper connection with your students? Let's start a conversation. #education #innovation #engineering #physics

Educational App Shoutout: Newton's Room This passthrough VR application teaches the concepts of mass, reflection, and drag by launching a ball into your environment, bouncing it off of walls and obstacles the user has placed! It serves as a hands-on demonstration of force equations, allowing your students to implement their physics knowledge to solve 3D puzzles by landing the ball at an exact point in the room. This app demonstrates how augmented reality lets you bring abstract concepts into the real, physical world around you. Have you tried it? Link in comments! #shoutout #educationalapp #augmentedreality #3dpuzzles #physics #demonstrations #newton #K12

🚀🚀Becoming a cellular engineer⚙️⚙️ Definitely «Cell Division: Mitosis» for biology classroom is one of the most favorite simulations for both students and teachers from XREADY LAB | Best VR education | Free 3D models | Science | Tools for teachers | VR classroom With immersive visuals and interactive features, this VR lesson, designed to align with the school curriculum, allows students to witness the complex process of cell division in a way that textbooks simply cannot replicate. In 10 minutes of interactive lab students will pass the process and learn: 👀 What are the stages of mitotic cell division? 👀 What events occur in each stage of division? 👀 What is the role of organelles in cell division? Our simply integrated into the lesson simulation offers an engaging and informative experience that is sure to leave a lasting impression on students. Want to take the students’ understanding of cell division to the next level? 🚀 For a free demo check the link https://lnkd.in/eWJrhFgT #vreducation #vrlearning #k12 #k12education #STEMeducation #VRlabs #virtualreality #mitosis #celldivision #STEMteachers #immersivelearning #VRsimulation #educationtechnology #STEMcurriculum #futureofeducation #futureoflearning

How fun to watch your thesis defense at 2x speed! How painful yet joyful it was to figure out how to present a sophisticated idea to a group of professionals and the general public in a hybrid environment! 🎥Three weeks ago, I defended my thesis, “Utgard Castle: How #Interactive Design Connects the #Queue to a #Locationbased #VR #Simulator”. Utgard Castle is an experimental project I conceived and designed to collect user-test data for the study. Themed after Attack on Titan, it features three floors: the first and second floors are the queue area, and the third floor offers the final VR simulation. (More project info 🔗 - https://lnkd.in/ezRmCP-Q) Besides dealing with a complex IP story, the biggest #challenge for the defense presentation was to clearly demonstrate the queue experience—which integrates #AR elements, group divisions, #immersive theater, and #game mechanics—within a few minutes, while also explaining how user-testing data supported the designs. As an interactive designer, I utilized the “(Game) User Journey Map” tool in combination with simplified floor maps to present the ideas with dynamic spatial transitions. 🔖The most delightful moment for me after the presentation was - Someone from the general public approached me, saying the presentation was neat, they understood everything, and then discussed the concept with me. This is the third time I’ve designed an attraction based on this complex IP, the 100th time I’ve communicated "Utgard Castle", and the Nth time this international student has delivered a public speech on her concept in a second language. It may not be perfect, but it is 100% a #happyending to my MFA program! :) ______________________________________________________ 🙌Thanks again to the guidance and encouragement from John Yelvington (#SCADamp), SuAnne Fu, William Gorgensen, Josh Steadman, Wan Chiu, Scott LaRocca, and Erin Chase at Savannah College of Art and Design. #thesisdefense #themedentertainmentdesign #interactivedesign #attractiondesign #presentation #MFA

Hey Connections , I am excited to share that I have Just wrapped🚀 up an exciting project where I developed a 3D simulation 🌍 app for VR using C#, Unity Engine, Vuforia, Blender, Unity Asset Store,Google Cardboard and Sketchfab! 🎮 With this app, users can explore and interact with planets in a fully immersive 360° environment using a VR Box. By pressing S key on a physical keyboard(Which will be connected with VR Box via bluetooth), users can switch between planets and get detailed information about the each and every Planet —displayed neatly in a square info box. Here is a brief video through my PC . I press S key on a physical keyboard I switched to a planet and get detailed information about the Planet —displayed neatly in the square info box.It was more immersive and cool in VR Box . Here are some highlights: 🌌 Simulated planetary and star motion using Unity's physics engine. 🌐 Imported Google VR Box into Unity for full 360° navigation. 🖼️ Applied stunning textures to the 3D models using resources from Sketchfab and NASA 3D. This project was a great opportunity to push my skills in AR/VR, 3D modeling,Data Structure and Algorithms and C# development, while bringing the wonders of space closer in a fun, interactive way!  #Unity3D #CSharp #Algorithms #Blender #SoftwareDevelopment #AppDevelopment #SpaceExploration #NASA3D #GameDevelopment #Datastructures #3DSimulation #VirtualReality #Vuforia #ImmersiveTech #TechInnovation #PhysicsInGames #InteractiveLearning #SpaceTech #ARVRDevelopment #3DVisualization #STEMTech

Hello everyone 😊 ! I’m Damián Rueda, a technology enthusiast 😁 with a strong background in electronics and programming 💻 . After specializing in Graphic Application Development at U-tad, I have dedicated myself to exploring the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. I’m excited to share my journey and the innovations I’m working on. Follow my profile for more updates! #AI #VR #Innovation"

Join me on April 19th at 1:30 in the N building MatLab for my final thesis presentation! 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 & 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 2𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑽𝑹-𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑲𝑺𝑼'𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉. 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎. I'll take you through: 1- What is VR, how to use it safely, and how it can be incorporated into the architectural design process & workflow 2- KSU's current arch. program and how VR can be implemented into current classes 3- Precedent studies of firms in the greater ATL area that use VR, as well as schools nationwide that have used VR in their own arch. program 4- Four key architectural metrics that can be analyzed to help improve architectural design (Light, Form, Tectonics, Program) 5- A comparative analysis of my personal 4th year studio project using the four metrics 6- The test group curriculum outline and trials performed in the 2024 1st year accelerated arch. program. (where half the class designed using VR and the other half designed using traditional methods) 7- Synthesis to help formulate an outline for a proposed VR-centric studio course in KSU's CACM.

💬 The Power of Practice—In Both Tech and Therapy In coding, we debug errors to improve the program. In stuttering therapy, individuals practice their speech to improve fluency. While the challenges might be different, the approach is the same—practice makes perfect. That’s why I’m developing VR simulations that allow people to practice real-world conversations in a safe space. It’s a powerful way to build confidence and enhance communication skills, all while using technology to overcome real-life hurdles. The parallels between coding and communication are fascinating—both require patience, persistence, and a little bit of troubleshooting. 🚀 #VRTherapy #StutteringAwareness #TechForGood #InnovationInHealthcare #Unity3D #PracticeMakesPerfect