Terry P Assignment #12

I am amazed at all the possible technologies that we and our students will be able to incorporate into their education. After researching a few emerging technologies, I found that the one that fascinated me most was Markus Kähäri’s work at Nokia. His project, known as Mobile Augmented Reality Applications, is similar to the virtual tours many of us have taken when looking at things like, museums and real estate online. He and his research team is taking the concept a little further, however, and it is leading to the possibilities of traveling throughout an entire city without actually being there at all. The application is being developed for cell phones, but the benefits of something like this on the computer would also be great. This technology is much like Google Earth except a bit more refined. Instead of staring at rooftops, one can find themselves in an actual city.

I think these technologies would really get students more interested in a variety of subjects. Geography classes would obviously benefit from this kind of technology, but there are many other possibilities for other classes. Marketing students could really get a feel for what their signs would look like from the street in Time Square and students studying art and architecture could virtually walk around a building that they had just read about in their text books.