Synopsis: Dr. Neil and Mr.Fergus‘s presentation charts the path from a funded R&D project (Mobius) to a VR platform for higher education: edify. This takes in the institutional, cultural, technological, and commercial challenges of deploying VR teaching at reasonable scale in Higher Education, shares the learning from that journey, and offers a chance to get involved. They also present edify showcases and VR-by-Proxy in this session.
Mr.Fergus Bruce
Director of Education Partnerships
Bio:
Fergus leads Education Partnerships at Edify, and was the industry Project Lead for Mobius, the R&D project from which Edify emerged. He has extensive experience in harnessing the immense potential of new visualisation technologies for communication, education, and engagement. He holds degrees in Philosophy from the universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, and has a particular interest in how immersive technology and spatial computing can drive new, highly personalised curricula and pedagogy.
Synopsis: Our presentation charts the path from a funded R&D project (Mobius) to a VR platform for higher education: edify. This takes in the institutional, cultural, technological, and commercial challenges of deploying VR teaching at reasonable scale in Higher Education, shares the learning from that journey, and offers a chance to get involved. We will also showcase edify and VR-by-Proxy.
Dr.Neil McDonnell
LKAS fellow for VR and AR
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Bio:
I am a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience within the University of Glasgow. My work focusses on the research questions within philosophy, and beyond, concerning the new Immersive Technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). I led Project Mobius – a VR teaching R&D project – and now work on deploying the product of that project: edify.