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Archives: Virtual reality

Start-up Stories: Mindscape Commons — or, How VR is Helping Develop Medical Students’ Communication Skills

How virtual reality and immersive content is helping medical students gain insight into their patients’ experiences.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 30, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Mixed Realities, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Markus Kaindl and Martijn Roelandse

Augmented reality is increasingly being used in scholarly publishing — in expected and unexpected ways. Learn how Springer Nature has been experimenting with it in this interview with their Senior Manager of Semantic Data, Markus Kaindl, and Head of Innovation, Martijn Roelandse.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 17, 2019
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Virtual Reality and the Scholarly Publisher

This time, Virtual Reality is not a gimmick. This post summarises my investigations and thoughts on the possibilities for VR in the context of scholarly publishing. Plus there’s a quick primer to get you started.

  • By David Smith
  • Nov 18, 2015
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Why Is the Internet Considered to Be "Artificial"?

The artificiality of Internet inventions and experiences is about novelty, not artificiality. We’ve always been pretenders.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 11, 2011
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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