Virtual Reality Applications

Este artículo describe los resultados sobre el estudio de la experiencia del usuario de dos colegios dentro de un espacio virtual educativo flexible que conjuga escuela y museo. Este espacio educativo integral incluye no solo la exploración de áreas expositivas, sino que abarca desde charlas telepresenciales por parte del personal del museo, simulaciones, virtual quests a trabajos escolares dentro de un entorno virtual multiusuario basado en OpenSim, accesible simultáneamente desde las diferentes instituciones implicadas en el experimento.

Este trabajo describe una línea de investigación y desarrollo (I/D) y los resultados esperados de la misma. El objetivo principal es analizar, generar y evaluar modelos matemáticos y métodos computacionales asociados en ingeniería. Se estudian problemas que por su nivel de complejidad requieren soluciones específicas. Los modelos abordados son dependientes del tipo de sistema estudiado, del fenómeno analizado y del área particular de ingeniería que originó el requerimiento. Determinar el tipo de sistema, el método para evaluar su rendimiento y las soluciones numéricas óptimas o subóptimas forma parte de los objetivos en esta línea de I/D.

This paper studies the concept related to E-learning and the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and their role in organizing future teachers’ terminological work by specialty. It is shown the creation and use of the VLE is a promising approach in qualitative restructuring of future specialists’ vocation training, a suitable complement rather than a complete replacement of traditional learning. The concept of VLE has been disclosed; its structure has been presented as a set of components, such as: the Data-based component, the Communication-based, the Management-and-Guiding ones, and the virtual environments. Some VLE’s potential contributions to the organization of terminological work of future biology teachers’ throughout a traditional classroom teaching, an independent work, and during the field practices has been considered. The content of professionally oriented e-courses “Botany with Basis of Geobotany” and “Latin. Botany Terminology” has been revealed; the ways of working with...

The article focuses on the use of mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools to improve students’ German-language lexical competence. The composition and structure of lexical competence are described, the order of exercises for lexical competence formation is given, the didactic possibilities of using mobile applications, blogging technologies and other interactive tools to improve lexical skills are found out, examples of using mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools in the learning process that prove their effectiveness are given. It is proved that the use of mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools helps to organize students’ work in and outside classrooms effectively for the formation and improvement of their lexical competence.

The paper deals with the urgent problem of application of virtual reality in foreign language training. Statistical data confirms that the number of smartphone users, Internet users, including wireless Internet users, has been increasing for recent years in Ukraine and tends to grow. The coherence of quick mobile Internet access and presence of supplementary equipment enables to get trained or to self-dependently advance due to usage of virtual reality possibilities for education in the stationary classrooms, at home and in motion. Several important features of virtual reality, its advantages for education are discussed. It is noted that virtual reality is remaining a relatively new technology in language learning. Benefits from virtual reality implementation into foreign language learning and teaching are given. The aspects of immersion and gamification in foreign language learning are considered. It is emphasized that virtual reality creates necessary preconditions for motivation ...

The article is devoted to virtual reality technologies and scenarios of their application in distance learning of foreign languages. A generalized experience of application of virtual reality technologies in distance learning of foreign languages is presented; the advantages, risks and deterrents of their introduction into the educational process in educational institutions are highlighted. The features by which technologies can be classified as virtual reality technologies are singled out. Examples of application of the following virtual reality technologies are considered: Mondly VR, VirtualSpeech, Immersive VR Education, AltspaceVR and ClassVR; their brief description, scenarios for use in learning foreign languages, benefits and risks of use are provided. Summarizing the review of these technologies, it was found that the educational content of distance learning of foreign languages through virtual reality can be divided into three groups: “360-degree video”, platforms and sites...

The article focuses on the use of mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools to improve students’ German-language lexical competence. The composition and structure of lexical competence are described, the order of exercises for lexical competence formation is given, the didactic possibilities of using mobile applications, blogging technologies and other interactive tools to improve lexical skills are found out, examples of using mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools in the learning process that prove their effectiveness are given. It is proved that the use of mobile applications and Web 2.0 interactive tools helps to organize students’ work in and outside classrooms effectively for the formation and improvement of their lexical competence.

The paper deals with the urgent problem of application of virtual reality in foreign language training. Statistical data confirms that the number of smartphone users, Internet users, including wireless Internet users, has been increasing for recent years in Ukraine and tends to grow. The coherence of quick mobile Internet access and presence of supplementary equipment enables to get trained or to self-dependently advance due to usage of virtual reality possibilities for education in the stationary classrooms, at home and in motion. Several important features of virtual reality, its advantages for education are discussed. It is noted that virtual reality is remaining a relatively new technology in language learning. Benefits from virtual reality implementation into foreign language learning and teaching are given. The aspects of immersion and gamification in foreign language learning are considered. It is emphasized that virtual reality creates necessary preconditions for motivation ...

Computational Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that investigates how the nervous system works, by developing comprehensive simulation models of single neurons or networks that are based on experimental findings. In this paper we describe our efforts in designing a scalable virtual reality system and heuristic-based interface library for use by computational neuroscientists to visualize simulated data from their research 1 . 1 Introduction The last several years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of neurobiologists building or using computer-based models as a regular part of their efforts to understand how different neural systems function[Bow92]. As experimental data continues to amass, it is increasingly clear that detailed physiological and anatomical data alone are not enough to infer how neural circuits work. Experimentalists are increasingly recognizing the need for the quantitative approach to exploring the functional consequences of particular neuronal featur...

Al igual que otras disciplinas científicas, la arqueología se ha beneficiado desde hace décadas de las innovaciones producidas por la revolución informática. En la actualidad, la eficacia de métodos computacionales y técnicas digitales para estudiar el pasado ha alcanzado un nivel tan alto que tareas fundamentales, como el registro de datos, la clasificación de artefactos, la evaluación de modelos de evolución histórica, la exhibición y difusión del patrimonio cultural, entre muchas otras, no pueden concebirse sin un enfoque cuantitativo facilitado por un ordenador electrónico.
En este libro se presentan 18 trabajos que demuestran el potencial de los métodos computacionales en la documentación, análisis y difusión del patrimonio cultural. El volumen es resultado del trabajo de 32 miembros de la Red de Tecnologías Digitales para la Difusión del Patrimonio Cultural (RedTDPC), una organización académica que reúne a más de 250 investigadores, estudiantes, gestores culturales y agentes de los sectores público y privado interesados en investigar las condiciones técnicas, intelectuales, legales y económicas para que las tecnologías digitales puedan ayudar a las instituciones culturales a mejorar el análisis, la difusión y la divulgación del patrimonio cultural. La RedTDPC opera desde el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia gracias al financiamiento del Programa Redes Temáticas del Consejo nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. Con la publicación de este libro, la RedTDPC trata de llenar un vacío en la bibliografía mexicana sobre arqueología computacional y espera fomentar entre estudiantes e investigadores el interés por este importante tema.

Este libro reúne la experiencia de 39 investigadores dedicados a desarrollar métodos, técnicas y herramientas digitales para facilitar el análisis, preservación y divulgación del patrimonio cultural. El contenido se organiza en 17 capítulos de temas muy diversos, entre los cuales se cuentan: el uso de visión por computadora para analizar la morfología tridimensional de objetos arqueológicos, la combinación de lingüística computacional con análisis espacial para identificar patrones de información en documentos históricos, la aplicación de Quimiometría para determinar la procedencia de objetos de obsidiana, y el análisis de imágenes por transformación de reflectancia para detectar huellas en objetos de piedra. A esos trabajos se suman artículos que discuten las ventajas de los videojuegos para el aprendizaje de la historia y la arqueología, el uso de la realidad virtual y aumentada en la reconstrucción de zonas arqueológicas y una discusión de los criterios de usabilidad que deben considerarse al diseñar aplicaciones digitales. El libro también incluye una descripción del Modelo de Datos México y un texto sobre el desarrollo de Mexicana, el concentrador de información en línea que reúne millones de datos del patrimonio cultural conservado en museos e instituciones culturales de México. Además, hay un artículo que describe aplicaciones en tres medios digitales para divulgar la poesía de Octavio Paz, preservar documentos históricos y conservar las lenguas indígenas. El lector también encontrará un artículo que describe la implementación de una base de datos de la epigrafía romana de Galicia.
Confiamos en que este libro, impulsado por la Red Conacyt de Tecnologías Digitales para la Difusión del Patrimonio Cultural (RedTDPC) y el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, anime al lector a adoptar o mejorar las propuestas aquí publicadas con el fin de facilitar nuestro acercamiento al patrimonio cultural.

Computational Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that investigates how the nervous system works, by developing comprehensive simulation models of single neurons or networks that are based on experimental ndings. In this paper we describe our e orts in designing a scalable virtual reality system and heuristic-based interface library for use by computational neuroscientists to visualize simulated data from their research 1 .

Computational Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that investigates how the nervous system works, by developing comprehensive simulation models of single neurons or networks that are based on experimental ndings. In this paper we describe our e orts in designing a scalable virtual reality system and heuristic-based interface library for use by computational neuroscientists to visualize simulated data from their research 1 .

The paper deals with the urgent problem of application of virtual reality in foreign language training. Statistical data confirms that the number of smartphone users, Internet users, including wireless Internet users, has been increasing for recent years in Ukraine and tends to grow. The coherence of quick mobile Internet access and presence of supplementary equipment enables to get trained or to self-dependently advance due to usage of virtual reality possibilities for education in the stationary classrooms, at home and in motion. Several important features of virtual reality, its advantages for education are discussed. It is noted that virtual reality is remaining a relatively new technology in language learning. Benefits from virtual reality implementation into foreign language learning and teaching are given. The aspects of immersion and gamification in foreign language learning are considered. It is emphasized that virtual reality creates necessary preconditions for motivation increasing. The results of the survey at two higher education institution as to personal experience in using VR applications for learning foreign languages are presented. Most students at both universities have indicated quite a low virtual reality application usage. Six popular virtual reality applications for foreign language learning (Mondly, VRSpeech, VR Learn English, Gold Lotus, AltSpaceVR and VirtualSpeech) are analyzed. It is stated that the most preferred VR application for foreign language learning includes detailed virtual environment for maximal immersion, high-level visual effects similar to video games, simple avatar control, thorough material selection and complete complicity level accordance of every element and aspect, affordability, helpful and unobtrusive following up.

During the last decade, virtual reality (VR) has emerged from the realm of science fiction fantasies to be experienced by thousands of people. The development of hardware and software support for VR also has led to ahuge expansion in the number of applications supported by the medium. The collection of state-of-the-art developments presented in this volume explores the principal application areas of VR systems, and addresses some of the main issues for potential users. Application areas covered include medicine and surgery, engineering and simulation, systems development and modeling, televirtuality, art and education. Human factors issues in VR are also discussed. Explores the principal application areas of VR systems and addresses the central issues Discusses human factors in VR Covers VR applications in medicine, engineering, system modeling, art, and education Contributors are renowned experts in the VR field

Computational Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that investigates how the nervous system works, by developing comprehensive simulation models of single neurons or networks that are based on experimental ndings. In this paper we describe our e orts in designing a scalable virtual reality system and heuristic-based interface library for use by computational neuroscientists to visualize simulated data from their research 1 .

Computational Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that investigates how the nervous system works, by developing comprehensive simulation models of single neurons or networks that are based on experimental ndings. In this paper we describe our e orts in designing a scalable virtual reality system and heuristic-based interface library for use by computational neuroscientists to visualize simulated data from their research1.