Blue World Notes: Ball State University's "Immersive Learning" Experience Launches in Blue Mars

Above left, IDIA laser scanning a Weinmam sculpture; right, the sculpture after it's been imported into Blue Mars

Today the IDIA Lab of Ball State University is launching its "immersive education" experience in Blue Mars (where I'm a consultant), a massive site that includes a recreation of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and a Japanese temple, which features sculptures that were recreated from laser scanning of the originals that are kept in the university's museum. To be sure I am keenly biased, but I think it's a very interesting example of interactive 3D for educational purposes -- especially when it's available on the cloud. But decide for yourself: More about it from Jasmine of Avatar Reality here. If you have the free Blue Mars client installed, you'll see the IDIA site after you launch it and check the Places browser.

Comments

[Gar Varr Rau]

How many times do we need to be reminded that you consult for Blue Mars?

[Hamlet Au]

For full disclosure reasons, anytime I mention Blue Mars.

[Writing a dissertation]

Pretty interesting to examine about the recreated from laser scanning of the originals,picture is also great to see.