Digital Vandalism, in the Name of Feminism – XR News for September 4, 2019

Tired of waiting for the US treasury
to put a female face on the $20? (Because you’ll probably be waiting
a while yet!) Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve
developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That’s
just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for
this week’s news update.

A white paper published by Microsoft found that test scores among students using immersive technologies improved by as much as 22 percent, with the effect maintained over a period of weeks, including increased performance on skills-based tasks and gains in knowledge, abstract reasoning, and critical thinking.In a new survey of 900 developers working on VR/AR, 33 percent of them were focusing on education, and 27 percent were focusing on training Google puts women on US currency with an AR workaroundNew 8-minute galactic primer “Clio’s Cosmic Quest” is the future of AR educationFortum nuclear power plant uses VR for control room trainingFitz Frames allows kids to virtually try on and customize glasses with ARUS military using Hololens for planning ‘sandbox’ LA Dodgers embrace virtual reality batting practice