Virtual Headsets Transport K–12 Students Through Space and Time

December 28, 2022

Field trips have long been an interactive complement to classroom learning, providing students with new and interesting learning experiences beyond school walls. However, the past two years of COVID-19 closures and precautions forced schools to pivot, and virtual field trips began to gain ground.
Now that students are back to in-person learning, it doesn’t appear that virtual excursions are going away. In 2021, the American Alliance of Museums surveyed teachers who participated in virtual field trips, and 95 percent indicated they were interested in continuing the programs, even after in-…

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ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant (Farah Nayeri/New York Times)

Farah Nayeri / New York Times:
ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant — ICA Miami owns a few, and M.F.A. Boston and others are selling them to reach new audiences “in a world where Instagram and Siri are prevalent.”

December 1, 2022

Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot from advertising in favor of recurring revenue through subscriptions (Brian Morrissey/The Rebooting)

Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot from advertising in favor of recurring revenue through subscriptions — Tech’s marriage of convenience to the ad industry hits the rocks — Request: Please fill out this survey as I think through …

November 5, 2022

Mark Cuban’s interactive streaming app Fireside acquires streaming platform Stremium and plans to launch on smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Cuban’s interactive streaming app Fireside acquires streaming platform Stremium and plans to launch on smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other devices — Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive …

November 23, 2022

Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, Mexico, Ghana, Australia, and India (Kali Hays/Insider)

Kali Hays / Insider:
Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, Mexico, Ghana, Australia, and India — – Twitter is leaving at least a dozen international offices due to closures or not paying rent. — Hubs in Europe and even Twitter’s headquarters in Asia are shuttered.

January 12, 2023

A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge:
A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact — Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.

September 20, 2022

A look at HoloLens’ development, as Microsoft spurned an early lead in AR to cede ground to Meta and others; one executive blames a lack of money and people (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
A look at HoloLens’ development, as Microsoft spurned an early lead in AR to cede ground to Meta and others; one executive blames a lack of money and people — Problems plagued development of its HoloLens augmented reality headset; ‘we had the opportunity to own this market’

October 26, 2022

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