The technology, a result of a partnership between Case Western Reserve and Bowling Green, uses a mobile device to explore photograph-based virtual worlds. There's no GPS, nor Wi-Fi used, as I understand it, for the navigation of the worlds. It's not clear how the datasets are knit together. Even if I don't quite follow how it works, the New Media Consortium identified it as one of six emerging technologies in its 2008 Horizon Report. The end use?
This three-dimensional photographic virtual world is likely to be introduced to higher education and specific organizations within the next five years.
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Pocket Virtual Worlds website (flash demo available)
- The BG News
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