Tag: virtual reality
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Weekly digest 37
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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BIP Digital Health – Technology for managing healthcare interventions
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discuss the influential role of technology in managing and recording healthcare interventions. We highlight the risks of uncritical technology adoption, examine how user interface design impacts patient care, and call for ethical considerations and sustainable practices. And we talk about empowering digital…
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Link: All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/02/vision-pro.html “My Vision Pro is highly imperfect—overpriced, heavy, slightly glitchy, very limited, creepy-avatared—because that’s exactly what products are like at the bottom of the S. Consumer products aren’t ready for mass adoption during this stage. But it’s the breakthroughs made during these years that set the stage for the explosive exponential phase of the curve.”
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Virtual reality in clinical education: A research project outline
I was lucky enough to spend some time chatting with Ben Ellis from Oxford Brookes University, about the possibilities of using VR for clinical education. A decade ago virtual reality was something that only the military and high end research labs could afford. But recently, thanks to initiatives like Google’s Cardboard, Daydream and Jump, pretty good VR experiences…
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Physiotherapy in 2050: Ethical and clinical implications
This post describes a project that I began earlier this week with my 3rd year undergraduate students as part of their Professional Ethics module. The project represents a convergence of a few ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a couple of years and are now coming together as a result of…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08
Two new Qualitative analysis books | Virtual Canuck http://bit.ly/aLWter # RT @xbkingx: Vegetative Patient Answers Yes and No Questions With His Brain [Medicine] http://ff.im/fqqoK # RT @gsiemens: RT @amcunningham: visualising learning networks- going to download tool now! fascinating http://bit.ly/99xtVu # Improving presentation skills, academic conferences are often dry and conservative, we need more entertainers http://tinyurl.com/yfa38hr…