JISC Digital Creativity Event 1

Things that stand out from session 1:

-"Augmented reality is all about context"
"Leap Motion" (50 x better than Kinect) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6hCwjwzUHg 
-Inception app for Iphone augments sound according to environment
-Lots of 'cool' things, lots of jargon
such as out of body experiences using 'cybermind goggles'

My view/ first response:The problem with this is that ideas about augmented reality need to take account of real reality which is a world where the real world is much more accessible to most students, most instituions and most teachers than an augmented one. It's about cost and infrastucture of course but also about senior managment vision, external drivers and impact and influence of government. The aurasma tool enables you to do snazzy things with phones and on computers but I'm not convinced that we're ready at our college for this sort of thing unless we're actually learning about the thing itself, if you see what I mean.