Pembroke_College_Year_12_Masterclass_2019_-_Computer_Science___VR.pdf

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1. Introduction to LabSci Imagine

   

   Pembroke College

   Year 12 Masterclass Series
   23rd March 2019
   
   Anil Madhavapeddy, Gemma Gordon
   

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2. Computer Science at
   Cambridge
   • Course information:

   https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate-students
   
   • Today’s subject session, a microcosm of Cambridge
   
   • Lectures
   
   • Practicals
   
   • Supervisions
   

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3. An introduction to

   virtual field trips
   

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4. Imagine LABScI
   Stanford & Cambridge
   • Overall Aim: To use cutting-edge technology to facilitate learning in non-
   standard classroom environments
   
   • Virtual Field Trip Program for students with limited resources, including
   hospitalised paediatric patients or those unable to experience nature
   
   • Summer 2018: Gathered footage from 32 different National Parks in the
   United States to develop interdisciplinary curricula with a STEM focus
   
   • Hands-on lab activities covering topics such as: deposition, uplift &
   erosion; desert adaptations; local flora and fauna; human geography and
   anthropology
   
   • Demonstrate curated field trips on inexpensive, readily available
   technology e.g. Google Cardboard Virtual Reality headsets
   https://labsci.github.io/imagine/
   

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5. How does virtual reality
   work?
   

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7. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
   

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8. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
   

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11. source: http://technotif.com/how-google-cardboard-works/
    

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12. Headsets, assemble!
    • Imagine LABScI:

    https://labsci.github.io/imagine/summer2018.html
    
    • Test your headset by navigating to:
    
    • 360 VR Image Slideshow: bit.ly/camopenday
    

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13. Virtually learning geology
    

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14. What is the
    Grand Staircase?
    • A sequence of sedimentary rock layers that form a
    staircase found on the Colorado Plateau in the USA

    (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona)
    
    • Stretches from Cedar Breaks in the north -> Bryce
    Canyon -> Grand Staircase-Escalante -> Zion National
    Park -> Grand Canyon in the south
    
    • Deposition, Uplift, Erosion
    

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15. The Grand Staircase
    

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16. Cedar Breaks
    

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17. Grand Canyon
    

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18. Imagine LABScI
    • Imagine LABScI:

    https://labsci.github.io/imagine/summer2018.html
    
    • 360 VR Image Slideshow: bit.ly/camopenday
    
    • 360 VR Video of Spooky Gulch: bit.ly/camimagine -
    launch from the YouTube app
    

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19. Supervisions
    • Two groups, answering two questions:
    • Gemma: What subject area(s) do you think would benefit
    from this approach?
    • Anil: How would you modify the technology to improve
    this use case, and to apply to other use cases?
    

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