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USC – Web Journalist Blog https://blog.webjournalist.org Tech. Culture. Journalism. Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:18:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.13 You don’t need to be the NYTimes to do VR (posted on Medium) https://blog.webjournalist.org/2015/10/22/you-dont-need-to-be-the-nytimes-to-do-vr-posted-on-medium/ Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:09:16 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=2892 I wrote this piece reacting to the news that The New York Times and Google were partnering up to do a major VR push. Got a lot of social shared and recommendations via Medium.

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Yay! Here comes everybody!

It’s great to see the rush of people coming to explore the emerging tech of virtual reality. Yes, it appears the overly-hyped promise that under delivered for several decades has finally become a legitimate reality.

All thanks to a former journalism student turned billionaire and this smart lady.

I’ve been exploring different forms of VR dating back to my college days when I was fascinated by Apple QuickTime VT Studio, but I am no pioneer. I have been more into Augmented Reality (I still think it is the most promising future) since I became a professor at USC Annenberg some six years ago.

But after attending a local VR conference about a year ago, I knew this was going to be huge.

So, I created a course with the aim of exploring what the hell VR experiences could be in journalism.

Read more here: https://medium.com/@webjournalist/you-don-t-need-to-be-the-nytimes-to-do-vr-be4efb00ff74

]]> My teaching style? Nerding out (video bio) https://blog.webjournalist.org/2014/09/10/my-teaching-style-nerding-out-video-bio/ Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:17:38 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=2780 So, I did this cool project for USC called Connecting with USC Scholars, in which I lead a micro seminar course about Augmented Reality. They did a fantastic job producing some slick videos… seriously, go check them out.

Among the videos was one “about” me… and I kinda like it. (Is that vain?)

I managed to track down (from a secret location) and have embedded it here (don’t judge):

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