How Augmented Reality Will Change Education Completely | Florian Radke | TEDxGateway

We are all 3D creatures Our brain is the most powerful 3D computer in the world We have evolved to think and store memory in three dimensions In fact, when we look at information on a flat sheet of paper or on a computer screen, it takes us some time to our brain translate that beon into 3D for us to use you all have seen TV shows with memory artists, those amazing human beings who can remember sequences of thousands of numbers and names, memory artists, they use a trick, they create a 3D image of a street or familiar room in their head and then store the information along the street so they can remember it later.

In fact, I'm using this trick right now to remember this talk, so why am I telling you this because the fact that we can access our 3D computer in our head is the biggest promise that a technology called

augmented

reality

has for all of us. . This technology

will

dramatically

change

the way we interact with data, increase our learning curve, and increase the productivity of our brain. I think

augmented

reality

will

be the next big platform for productivity in general, but for information sharing in particular, like Iron Man, we will soon be surrounded by data and 3D models that we will be able to capture and interact with some, say, as soon as in the year 2025.

The promise that augmented reality has for us is that, instead of isolating us further, it will free us from the addictive little screens in our hands and we will take the data and place it around us, even if the recent news wants do it. I think the weapons reality is about chasing Pokémon in traffic. A few years ago I took my wife to visit the Holocaust Memorial in Germany as we walked through the old concentration camp building, we stopped at a room that didn't seem to have much importance. Until we read the small sign on the wall while reading the description of the room we could feel the chill of the history of this room running down our necks at the same time I remember a group of teenagers probably a group of high school students. students passing by the room, some of them chatting but most of them were busy with their phones.

None of them had noticed the sign on the wall. We knew that the room we were in was a room where prisoners had been dissected after being exposed to brutal and forceful experiments with poisonous gases and experimental drugs for the students. This information was

completely

lost. This topic of trying to improve the way we share information has always fascinated me as a communications expert. I have always looked for some kind of solution to facilitate knowledge transfer. and more Universal augmented reality will

completely

change

how we learn how we work and maybe how we think and I would like to give you a small example that this is the work desk of the future and this is meta 2, the most advanced augmented reality. headphones on the market, this device allows me to put 3D images and holograms around me and put them in space and allow me to interact with them, so let me take you on a little thought experiment imagine I'm an engineering student and I'm writing. an article about something that is designed and engineering genius and since I'm a space nerd I want to write about the International Space Station so what I'm doing is probably going to Wikipedia and looking up information and here it is, I opened a window from the browser and I opened a browser window and, um, I look at it and now I touch it and I see a high-level 3D model of the International Space Station in front of my face instead of the image.

That just gives me an angle. I have multiple angles now I can look at it and see how it works and how everything works together and then I can look at it from a different angle and really understand how it's floating above us in space. Since I obviously want to get an A in my paper, I need to know a little bit more about how this device works or how this building works so that with a flick of my finger I can blow it up and look at all the details and, if I want, see a little bit of what's there. going on Here I can zoom in and take a look and see how this all works together, but I don't know what some of these parts are to be honest, so there is information built into this 3D model, so again with With a wave of my finger I can pick it up and I look at it and understand how this all works together, so I guess this is the Columbus module.

Well this is an example of what you can do with any 3D model in the world and the global database of 3D models grows every hour so this was just a quick example of what can be created with a kit of tools that is available to the global developer community. This toolkit will allow you to create truly immersive augmented reality experience apps that actually work better with your brain Augmented reality is currently in the development phase Some of the smartest people in the world are creating apps that will dramatically change the way we We interact with data, but soon this technology will be available to all of us through smart devices. classes or even contact lenses I really believe that soon virtual reality devices will surpass the current 2.6 billion smartphone users in the world.

Through augmented reality and neuroscience we can create incredible things, we will improve

education

and productivity and unlock incredible potential in the next. These years are similar to how emerging economies skipped the landline and went straight to the cell phone system. I wonder why we don't skip the tablets and screens in the classroom and go straight from the whiteboard to three-dimensional space. Imagine a surgeon explaining. an upcoming brain surgery with a 3D brain scan for your patient imagine a teacher teaching the human genome with a strand of DNA floating in front of his students imagine students walking through a museum or through nature exploring the concepts with information in reality augmented applications are truly endless, this is the future we are going to live in, it is up to us, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists and the

education

experts, to create something meaningful, something that will allow us to build a better and more world. connected.

Thank you so much.