This might be Web 3.0 or even Web 10.0 technology in the far far future, but I just have to wonder how wonderful it would be if distance education would somehow become an environment of Hologram technology. This might not happen anytime soon of course since we can't even get past virtual classroom.
Virtual classroom is available now but the technology costs too much and not everyone is up to date with the product.
Hologram technology would reinvent learning. Just imagine lying down on the sofa, strap something over your head, and you enter a world of hologram where everyone of your classmates are there and you actually learn through holograms.
If anyone has ever seen the movie Disclosure with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas, then you would understand what I'm talking about when it comes to hologram virtual environment.
I saw the movie and read the book. Great reading. It would be interesting to move your hands in this world and have it interact with the virtual world. Actually I was playing in Second Life last night and attended a Q&A session for newbies. It was fun watching the other avatars as they were typing in their questions to ask the moderator, their little avatar fingers looked like they were typing. They didn't have a keyboard, but their little fingers were just typing away :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the movie and the hologram thing I was like if only that would be possible in the real world. This is why it can only happens in Hollywood, but I hope in the future Bill Gates can do it or Mac, or some crazy company going all out for hologram technology!
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