Working environment is very competitive here in Singapore. The only constant is change, that much is a given. In order to keep being relevant in their jobs, people have to be adaptable.
In order to prepare Singaporeans for the coming wave of change, National Library Board is holding a series of talk themed “The Future of Work”.
For this series, App Igniter will be delivering the talks on Augmented Reality (AR).
Happy New Year!
Are you done with listing your resolutions?
Whether you actually have a list or not, the one thing for sure is that we all have a certain hope for each new year. Here at App Igniter, we’re more excited than ever to welcome the 2019 in metaverse.
What’s in store in the XR industry this year is anyone’s guess, but we can be certain that this year is gonna be bigger than the last. So where should we put our focus on?
I’m a big believer on education… but not so much on education system.
I feel the system is still heavily oriented towards passive learning. Students are force-fed tons of information without any practical guidance on how to use it in real life. Low motivation and shallow absorption rate is the result.
We need to do something about it, unless we are still ok with releasing a bunch of graduates every year who are clueless about their career running around applying random jobs like headless chickens.
There is a silver lining in this status quo. With the new paradigm shift in the education industry, many promising solutions are starting to come into the light.
One of them is Augmented Reality.
The thing I love about programming is because it’s fun to see how things work out the way you design it to be. Actually, it’s funnier sometimes when things don’t go according to your design.
It goes doubly so for 3D content development.
However, there are usually more headaches in development when you start considering the hardware you want to deploy to.
Coming from mobile app development, I know first hand how hard it is just synchronizing between Android and iOS.
Now this hold true by a magnitude in the XR ecosystem. Every few months there is a new headset coming. Each with their own set of SDK written in many different programming languages.
The pace of technological growth in the “R” industry is astounding. Unsurprisingly, an increase in glossary of related terms comes with the territory.
It’s not a shame, really, to mixed up some of those terms. It has become too common a scenario when clients approached me to inquire about AR service while they really meant VR and vice versa.
Hence after a while I made this educational info as one of the first slides in my pitch deck.
Let’s define them.
There’s a wave of immersive experience hitting the education sector. And it’s just a matter of time before Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is interested to pilot an experimental program using XR.
A Senior lecturer in Information System faculty is leading this bold experiment for one of his programming subjects – Introduction to Python. Initially they’re using physical 2-wheeled robots to foster the learning experience.
Then they came up to us with the idea of replacing a physical robot with the virtual one in AR or VR.
We are constantly being bombarded by a massive amount of information every single day. As a result, our attention span and threshold is flaky to say the least.
Our clients always knew about this, and that’s why the question that never fails to pop up in our conversations is this:
“How do we capture our audience attention so we can have them appreciate what we have to offer?”
