Pre #Murros2023: Expect the unexpected – Life after Microsoft Altspace
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Pre #Murros2023: Expect the unexpected – Life after Microsoft Altspace
21.3.2023
Julkaistu: 21.3.2023
VrinVET -project started off during the worst covid period. It is funded in the Commission extra call, aiming to find solutions to help teachers in exceptional circumstances, when contact lessons are out of question.
And we sure have been through numerous unexpected circumstances!
A cyber attack against Keuda in the fall 2022 caused for the project a re-scheduling of a workshop on VR. Did not see that one coming. Check, we managed, done! The most recent unexpected news was a schocker, too: Microsoft shut down their famous, free VR-environment Altspace. Which was one of the 2 VR-environments we tested and piloted in VRinVET.
What using new technology seems to take from it’s users is agility! We learnt the hard way that using solutions not tied to any specific environment is a good idea! What this means in practise?
Whatever VR-environment you use, it should be easy to create content and to download it onto the VR-environment. For example, 3D-models, or photos. If the VR-environment for one reasons shuts down – company goes banckrubt… Is bought by another company and user policy and/or pricing changes… They just shut it down… You name it – then you don’t loose any of the content.
If some programming is required and you want to create your own VR-environments, make sure to use unity, and keep it light. Unity packages can be brought into any VR-environment, altough it is not evident that all functionalities always work the same way in all VR-environments.
Altspace was free of charge, and would have been in that way accessible to anyone. Bringing VROOM to SPATIAL was our solution. The cost to user is very, very reasonable, which was great news! Extra meetings, quick decisions, and huge efforts by the subcontractor in short amount of time, and now we have VROOM up and running!
We’ll share the VROOM, recommendations regarding the use of VR in vocational education and training, and more VRinVET –experiences in #Murros2023-event on 18.4.2023.
The blog by Katriina Lammi,
Head of International Affairs,
Project manager of VRinVET -project
Katriina speaks about VRinVET together with Tuire Salo at the #Murros2023-event.
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