The Pixel Farm

I just finished presenting a session on “Augmented Reality in the Classroom” at this year’s NJEDge.Net Conference. For those of you who stopped by, thanks! Here’s a quick recap of some of the videos that I referred to during the talk. My own Augmented Reality demos can be found by clicking on the “Augmented Reality” category tag to the left.

Link: The REACH Project: Infinite Games for Pediatric Rehabilitation

Augmented Reality – The Future of Education

A Visit to Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab

A Soldier’s Therapy Session: Using Virtual Reality to help Patients with PTSD

Topps Baseball Cards in Augmented Reality

Mixed Reality Learning Media: Effects on Classroom Instruction

In-Place Augmented Reality 3D Sketching of Mechanical Systems

Fashionista: Webcam Social Shopper

New York Nearest Subway iPhone 3GS Application

Unveiling the Sixth Sense: Wearable Augmented Reality

Xbox Natal

The Daily Show: Augmented Reality in Iowa Caucus

This week John Kuiphoff and I worked to create a prototype of an audio collaboration tool for the Social Syllabus project.  As you may or may not know, educational applications of technology are a major passion of mine, and for a long time John and I have been working to explore ways in which rich media can be integrated into online frameworks that are designed to support instruction.

Our newest project, code named “Voicenotes” (working title), is an “audio markup” tool that gives anyone the ability to easily add their own voice to an image on the Internet.  Using a simple drag-and-drop interface, visitors can record an audio note simply by placing a virtual pin on top of a picture and speaking into their computer’s microphone.

The voicenotes interface being applied to the New York City subway map

A major criterion that I apply to almost all of my work is that the end product be web-deliverable, and Voicenotes is no exception.  Using a Flash-based client interface and a connection to a back-end Flash Media Server, this project is completely web-accessible from any computer that has an attached microphone and an active connection to the Internet.

Recording a new voice note

John and I will be refining Voicenotes over the next few weeks in an effort to fold its functionality into the larger Social Syllabus initiative.  Stay tuned!

To play around with Voicenotes feel free to visit http://socialsyllabus.com/voicenotes/