Fani Kiran Vulapalli

If you’ve tried out a Virtual Reality game, experience or a 360 video and experienced some discomfort during or afterward, you felt a type of motion sickness. The cause: Mixed sensory signals to the brain. The most common one is that your eyes registered horizon movement and the liquids in your inner ear did not. they knew you were on a flat stable surface. Similar to sea or travel sickness, your body reacts to this incongruity by making you feel ill. Your body misinterprets the cause (assuming you ate something poisonous) and triggers the ejection button to try to save you. “ Hangovers ” from technological immersion are now a real situation. Let me explain. You see, your Brain determines your spacial position and movement by using visual signals from your eyes and body(proprioception). Your subconscious is constantly processing motion cues, horizon placement, gravity and a host of other information (only having 5 senses is a myth, there are dozens) including motion signals f...

How AR Will Change Learning and Student Engagement With the constant introduction of new and exciting technologies, keeping up with terms and what they mean can get confusing. When we step into the space of virtual and augmented reality, many consider them to be the same thing, or do not know there is a difference. Simply put, if you use a technology to transport you to a different world or place that is not physical to your location, this is virtual reality. Augmented reality on the other hand builds on top of the physical space that exists around you. The Cost of Education Teaching students is expensive. We often think about college expenses when the subjects of money and education are brought up in the same conversation. However, college is just the first instance that a student starts to worry about money and education, because it is now their personal responsibility. The amount of funding needed to create a successful student (before college) is often not met by their ...