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Hi my name is Amy Dalton and I'm at
Johnson County Public Library in
Greenwood and we got started using
virtual reality because we did a very
large STEM fair at Anderson Houser which
is one of our local businesses and we
had a booth set up and we had a variety
of stem activities and I went ahead and
purchased some of the very inexpensive
google cardboard headsets and we shared
those with all of the kids at the stem
fair it's about it's over 700 middle
schoolers that attend so our booth was
really busy and we were just out of
control and the VR was a very very
popular part of our booth kids just
loved it they would put on the headsets
and just you know just be transported so
it was a lot of fun and we started doing
more programming with just the cardboard
headsets at our branch Amy I'm sorry
before you continued you want to tell
them a little bit about who you are oh I
figured nobody cared no I'm an adult
librarian at Johnson County and I do all
the adult programming and I also do teen
and family programming with our Young
Adult services and our Juvenile Services
Department we all sort of pitch in
together I'm sure people who are at
smaller systems get that so we end up
doing a lot of each other's programming
just it just so happens you kind of have
to pitch hit for all ages so why would
you want to VR at the library
besides it being a lot of fun we are
often the first place people go for new
technology we had our public computers
out before a lot of people had home
computers we have our e-readers we had
tablets and it's just another way to
introduce our public to new technology
it also gives you the chance to have
your patrons interactively explore
things you can bring a lot of things to
life for your patrons and that's adults
as well as teens and kids it engages
even reluctant users it's a draw for the
library especially some of those harder
audiences the maybe the 20-somethings
the new adults I can get them into the
library and maybe you can use it as bait
and and then you can show them all of
your other services and it can also be
physically active as well as mentally
active there are different programs that
you can use for different types of
motions dance even running and fitness
and so it's really nice it's also nice
to use with your older populations with
when the Wii came out we were doing a lot
of the Wii games the Wii bowling and
things with some of our seniors well
this is another way to engage your
seniors and they really do enjoy it once
they get over that initial you know
technophobe fear so there are a lot of
reasons that you'd want to try it at
your library and you can do it at all
kinds of different levels um I wanted to
share quickly my reluctant story about
VR because I'm certainly a reluctant
VRer um I really was kind of like oh it's
not for me I don't want to do it and that
might be what some patrons experience but
then once you get the thing on you don't
want to take it off no no especially if
you get something really good that's
really engaging yes just a brief
introduction to how it works in case you
haven't really looked at it before the
headset uses a split screen it's sort of
like an old stereopticon or a viewmaster
so you have the two slides it fills your
entire field of vision and then that's
what tricks your brain into immersing
you into that environment
also there are sensors and motion
controllers and different systems do
this in different ways that help track
your movements that let you actually
interact with what you're seeing
handheld controllers let you virtually
pick objects up but some of the lower
level VR systems use head and eye
tracking that and that also lets you
look around all around you up down back
sides and move through your images and
that's the 360 degree images that lets
you turn around so that you can see the
whole thing and it literally will trick
your brain into thinking that you are
really surrounded and in the illusion
Disney has been doing this for a long
time I don't know if anybody went to
Disney back in the 70s and 80s and did
the Monsanto Theater where everybody
stood in a little corral and the uh the
image was projected all around you and
you felt like you were marching in a
group of soldiers and different things I
mean that was way back it might have
even been the 70s I think they have that
still in Epcot and Canada yes you're
still in the Mounties I remember it when
I was little and they have all the rides
now even at the arcades where you sit in
the booth and it rattles back and forth
and the image is in front of you and it
feels like you're on a roller coaster
and it actually moves the seat VR just
takes that sensation and actually with
each iteration of the technology it just
improves it more so that you feel that
you're more immersed that you're more
part of the part of the scene part of
the vision what you need for VR a
headset and this can either be you know
a cardboard headset that's just a couple
dollars all the way up to a more
expensive system if you're using a
google cardboard based headset that
actually is at base so you'll need a
cell phone that has some sort of
internal gyro the more modern
smartphones have them probably anything
within the last five or six years will
have that that's what will sense the
motion so that you can move your head
and move throughout that environment if
you have a pc-based headset you will
need a computer that is powerful enough
that fits the specs for your headset
currently that is a pretty advanced
gaming computer but as time goes on
those specs are going to be lowered the
new Microsoft headsets are supposed to
be able to work with a less powerful
computer so there's a chance that the
price will keep dropping even for a
PC-based headset so does that mean that
if someone is interested in doing this
they might have to buy an additional
computer they might it really depends on
the specs of the system that you're
using if you just want to give people a
taste of VR the cellphone VR it's
getting more advanced by the day and
it's still a lot of fun to demo and it
does a lot of the things that the more
advanced VR does so you know you can
always start small and work up also some
headsets have external sensors some
track using cameras and some track using
other I think they call them towers or
lighthouses and that will actually track
your full body movement you can also get
handheld controllers and that's what
allows you to pick things up and
interact with objects in your VR
environment you can also if you're using
cell phone VR you can get an inexpensive
controller that's a handheld controller
so that you can use that also for moving
and picking things up even with cell
phone VR and those kits if you don't the
Google cardboard if you want a cardboard box
style cell phone VR headset they're just
a couple bucks but you can get the
plastic headsets there are more durable
with the remote controller for around
twenty-five dollars if you look so we
aren't talking a huge investment to get
your library started if you want to
start with cell phone VR and cell phone
VR works really well if you're doing
outreach because then it's just a
lightweight little thing that you can
just throw in a bag and take with you
some options for headsets again cell
phone VR that actually works through
apps most of the apps are free there are
some paid ones and works on Android and
Apple phones if they are more current
smartphone with the gyro it's very
inexpensive the cardboard headsets you
can even get those through Staples
printed with your library logo there are
only a couple a couple bucks apiece it's
really nice if you're doing a VR program
to use those as giveaways that you know
the people can make them and download an
app and you know get started right then
we've done that at our library where we
did a little intro to VR and then we
gave everybody the cardboard headsets
and they made them and started playing
with them right away so that is a very
inexpensive way to get started to give
your patrons a taste you do not need a
PC or gaming console it just goes
through a cell phone and again super
super inexpensive if you want to you
know ramp up to get a plastic headset or
two again they're also very inexpensive
the Samsung gear is a cell phone based
headset that's just a little more
powerful it is powered by the oculus
system so you get a lot more games than
just the app based games through the
Samsung gear store you can also set it
up so it'll play all the google
cardboard apps that's fine too but it
only works on Samsung
phones so you have to have a specific
phone to match with your headset it is a
little more expensive and the games are
more expensive the different pieces of
software but again you can get a lot
more popular games and that does include
Minecraft which is a really popular game
that has a lot of library applications
some libraries are using it in non VR
now to do different kinds of
construction and physics and different
things Minecraft clubs I see those at
library programming all the time so this
is a way that you can actually walk
through your Minecraft creation Daydream
is a similar system it was made by
Google so it only works with Google
pixel phones the nice thing about Google
Daydream is it's super comfy it's
actually a foam and fabric covered
headset so it's like wearing a big
cushion on your head instead of the
plastic or a cardboard box so it is
really comfy it of course is compatible
with cardboard apps but they have made
special Daydream apps and those are
growing by the day the their biggest
draw right now is the Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them app you do get to
go you know into Newt Scamander's case and
walk through all of the walk through all
of the Fantastic Beasts so that's one of
their big draws now and a lot of times
if you do upgrade to a Pixel phone they
will throw in the the Daydream headset
for free so it's just another option but
again you're tied to only using the
Pixel cell phone so that's not like any
Android it's a specific one, no it has to it only works the the
Daydream software only works with their
Pixel branded phones I think there's two
models out right now so it is pretty
limited but I only mention it because
some people may have upgraded their cell
phone and gotten a free one and so that
it's another option the Oculus Rift that
is a PC-based headset it's fairly
expensive but it has very high quality
and very good controls they
have the touch controls so that you
can pick things up in your world
manipulate them shoot bows and arrows
whatever you're going to do and it uses
camera sensors so you set up a couple
cameras that record your movement and
that's how it tracks where your body is
in this virtual world it has a lot of
content games are a little pricey and
you do need a pretty decent gaming PC to
run the software just to run the Rift
software you when you use a PC based
headset you are wired into the PC now
the wire's really long so it's not like
you know you're going to reach the end
of your tether like a dog in the yard
and snap back it's not like that but
that's why you need the PC you're actually
wired to it and you are kind of limited
to the range of the cameras so when I
say move through the environment you
aren't walking miles and miles in space
a lot of times you're walking or jogging
in place which sounds really odd and it
does look odd when you see people doing
it but when you but when you're in the
headset it makes sense it's again if you
think back to the Wii if you've ever
played any of the Wii sports and you're
jogging in place shaking your controller
up and down to get miles it's similar to
that and when you're doing it it doesn't
seem it doesn't seem odd at all it just
seems like oh it's another part of the
game the HTC headset it's a it's a
wonderful option it has a ton of content
again available on the STEAM platform
Oculus has content available on the
Steam gaming platform and they also sell
it through the Oculus store HTC Vive
they have a lot of content on Steam if
you aren't familiar with Steam basically
it is a big huge
video game and other types of software
gaming software and educational software
store it's sort of open content it's
kind of if you think of the app store
for a cell phone it's like that for
computer games so people can create a
game and then market it through Steam
similar to how people can create an app
and market it through the App Store
either through Apple or through Google
so the game quality is real up and down
but there are ratings like the App Store
so if somebody makes a really dumb game
it will immediately get panned people
will review it immediately and say this
game's horrible don't download it so
again all that sort of crowd-sourced
it's like using Amazon for book reviews
or anything else so again it's a
platform where you can get a lot of
computer based games and a lot of it's
cheap and tons of the content is free
you do need a good gaming PC with the
HTC and it is pretty expensive but it
does come with handheld controls and it
uses it uses the lighthouse tower
sensors so you kind of set up this space
where you put the lighthouses on the
ground and they sense where you are
within that space and then transmit that
information back to the game so that it
knows where you're standing how you're
moving and the handheld controls again
allow you to pick things up PlayStation
VR works with a PS4 so if your library
is already doing some gaming programs
and has a PlayStation 4 already then the
headset just seamlessly works with that
you do need to have the handheld
controls and I did put the picture there
because i think the playstation controls
are so ridiculous they call them ice
cream cones and i don't know i just
think that they look really ridiculous i
think that were PlayStation is usually a
pretty cool gaming
platform and I thought those were like
incredibly uncool well I think they look cool, so
I guess it depends on your eyes
it really does I think
they're adorable but you know but when
you think of the typical you know gaming
20 year old kid and his you know black
t-shirt holding these ice cream cones is
pretty funny yeah but like a grandma might like them
yeah they're much less threatening
they're very they are very attractive um
but you don't have to like them don't have
like them I just I love to see people
using them because it does look like
they are holding two pretty pink ice
cream cones you also need a camera
with your PS4 again those two items
though aren't that expensive they don't
have a ton of games yet but because they
are backed by Sony they've already
started with a lot of really good titles
like Batman and Star Wars and that of
course is a really good draw for your
library again if you're already gaming
with PlayStation adding the headset
isn't going to be too huge of an
investment and you can go ahead and
start getting games right away we do
have one question to clarify um she's
asking what do you mean by needing a
camera or what camera would work
maybe um you will need just that the
little add-on camera that will hook into
your PlayStation though it's a
PlayStation camera yes and I believe I
you may not have to get it branded
PlayStation you seem to make sure that
it will work with your PlayStation but
that this particular headset uses that
type of camera to track your movements
most of the time with with the with the
other headsets the oculus and the HTC
they track your movements using
equipment that comes packaged with the
headset but in the case of PlayStation
when you get the headset you also may
have to make sure that you have a camera
Microsoft Windows 10 VR is not out yet
will be coming out hopefully for the
holiday season this year
I mention it now because it's already
been demo'd at some of the big
electronics conferences so people have
already seen it it doesn't need any sort
of base stations it has a sensor built
into the headset that in some magical
fashion tracks your movements which I
don't quite understand but it does it
it's like TV I turn it on I don't know
how it works can I give you cancer no I
don't believe so it will work with less
expensive computers and lowered computer
specs so again I mentioned it because
it's a good option especially if you
already have some nicer Windows 10
laptops in your system and may be able
to work with those it will have
different tiers of models so there will
be some lesser expensive head sets the
prices aren't out yet so we don't know
but they are saying it will be less
expensive so I am believing them and it
has the potential to be what xbox will
use for its VR they haven't announced
that yet but that is the speculation is
that it will be compatible with some
version of the xbox and they will also
be able to modify xbox content so it's a
really good option it also is rumored to
work with a lot of games on the Steam that
already in the Steam store again it's
not out yet so we don't know but this is
I'm basing this on some conference
reports and some of Microsoft's sort of
press releases so we'll see what happens
with it but it's something to keep an
eye on especially if your library may be
dipping its toe into the VR maybe later
in the year or next year it may be a
less expensive way to go I also want to
mention the RAZR Open-Source Virtual
Reality that is actually it was made by
software developers but they do have a
nice headset that they recommend called
the eyewear
and there are a lot of games and
different kinds of software being
developed on this platform it's similar
to Steam in that it's open source so
people can develop their own games and
then put them on this on the RAZR
website for people to purchase and play
so it's a little more a technical
cutting-edge than Steam so people who
are developing strictly virtual reality
content are using RAZR for that just
because the way that you create the
virtual reality software to put on this
platform is a little more advanced so
you can do more stuff with it it does
work with Steam games and can
unofficially be modified to work with
Oculus Rift content and there are
instructions for that on the RAZR
website actually so these are all when I
say it works with Steam and Vireio and
Dolphin those are other virtual reality
content providers where you can go and
people have created this content and
that's where you can purchase it or get
it for free a lot of it's free
surprisingly FOVE VR are that is
another new headset option it's big deal
is that it uses eye tracking not head
motions or body motions so it's very
good for people with limited mobility it
also is known for having amazing clarity
and it has its own games as well as
working with Steam games so this is sort
of your your option for people with a
lot of limited movements because you can
move through the content just by looking
instead of actually turning your head so
anyway that's that's that one I'm just
throwing it out there because you'll see
it come up it's coming up more and more
people who are really into VR love it
because it is very clear
the the lenses that they use are very
high quality and I want to mention
specifically Viewmaster because don't
rule them out they have very inexpensive
like twenty dollar headsets they're
super durable because they're made for
kids so the library application is very
good works with most phones it's almost
always on the best budget VR headset
list because they're really well made
and they're only about twenty
twenty-five thirty dollars depending on
if you can find a sale at toys r us or
not they have a new model that came out
this Christmas that has even more
updated optics and it's a really good if
you ever thought that your library might
want to circulate a headset this might
be the one I'd go for just because of
its durability be made by a toy company
Viewmaster also has its own content
again if the content that they provide
you can use with Google Cardboard
Viewmaster is a Cardboard based system
so it runs all the Google Cardboard apps
and also the iphone VR apps in their
store but they do create their own
content as well and when you purchase
the Viewmaster you actually get those
it's as a physical game that you can
transfer to your phone and people say
that it's a little more stable than the
app I don't know that for sure because I
don't have one but I have used the
Viewmaster app so i haven't had any
problems with them so i don't know about
that stability issue or not i just want
to mention I'm sure they have brand
loyalty from people that are my age loved their Viewmasters when
I was little as soon as I saw that I was
like oh maybe I do like VR yes and they're red
too so they're super cute
so what are you going to do with this
headset that you now have you can watch
videos in 360 and in 3D YouTube has a
whole section of content on their site
specifically for VR headsets that you
can stream through your cell phone or of
course you can also through your PC if
you have a PC-based headset you can play
super immersive games again so that your
motions you can actually physically walk
through an environment you can interact
with items one of the games that I
thought would be the least fun that
ended up being the most fun there are
some job simulators I know it sounds
terrible it's like I know why do I want
to pretend i'm working at Mcdonald's
those days are behind me but they make
the games a really fun and sort of
challenging to keep up with making
burgers or whatever game you happen to
be doing and kids really love them so
it's a really fun application to use
with kids and again you can actually
pick things up you have to physically
make a hamburger you have to physically
make a shake and give it to your
customer you can also do super silly
things like you know throw the burger at
their head or have you know you don't
have to do your job well in job
simulator so kids really do enjoy that
you can walk through destinations and
places and not just places on Earth
although Google Earth does have an app
where you can walk around there are all
sorts of apps where you can walk through
pyramids or walk through Tuscany which
is very actually very lovely and
peaceful but you can also walk through
places like Mars or inside the body and
the there are a ton of these anatomical
apps that are used by med students and
biology students but they come in all
different levels so there are also some
that are more a cartoon animation style
that aren't as graphic
are really cool to use with kids if
you're doing your story time on you know
head shoulders knees and toes or parts
of the body it you can add that on and
have the kids actually you know go
through parts of the body so you know
they can look inside an ear using the
headset so it is it's really fun and
some of the places are actually based on
like the Mars rover footage so it's
actually Mars it's not a mock-up and
also the footage that they have gotten
from Pluto that's amazing I know right
so you get to walk around Pluto I mean
like I was I was excited about Mars but
when you said Pluto I was like everybody wants to see it
really fun it's really cool and again
all ages actually love that for cell
phone VR you can actually use an app one
of the major ones is called Trinus VR and
TriDef 3D you put the TriDef on
your PC and the Trinus VR you
actually is an app for the phone then
you can wire your headset to your PC and
it operates it makes your little cell
phone and your little cardboard box
three dollar headset work like a more
high-end PC-based headset and you can
play Steam games and Minecraft and other
PC games it's a little bit pricey I
think the Trinus VR app is
thirty dollars I hate to say that for an
app but i'm pretty sure it is but it's
less expensive than a headset and again
for you know if your'e budget
constrained as we all are it's a really
nice option if you want to use it for
your Minecraft club or any of the other
Steam content it's an option and it's
not that hard again you just put the app
on your phone you put the other app on
the PC you link them up there's tons of
instructions on their website there's
instructions on YouTube that actually
walk you through
step by step with the screenshots and
once they're linked up you can play any
3D PC game that you already have and any
of the VR content that you purchase from
the Steam store or use for free from the
Steam store and then you can virtually
explore any of these games and it just
gives you more content for your cheapy
cellphone VR and there's also conversion
software for PC headsets too it just
expands the gaming platforms that you
can get content from content again is
king and with VR there are tons and tons
of platforms but unlike PlayStation or
xbox where you really can't mod it you
can't play a PlayStation game on an xbox
kind of thing because a lot of this
stuff is more open source there's all
these little tricks to get content from
one sort of brand to another and so
that's all out there too and I'm more
than happy to go into that in more
detail if anybody wants to contact me
about it because i have used Trinus to
play Minecraft with my crappy cardboard
box headset so what kind of programming
would you use in the library I'm sure
just sitting here you probably already
have things in mind but i just thought
I'd go over some things that i have done
or plan to do in the future and that
I've seen other libraries do of course
you can always just do a demo a basic
intro to VR this is a really nice
way again to draw people into your
library you can use the cardboard
headsets and expensive ones as giveaways
you can demo different apps flying and
roller coasters are ones that we have
used at stem fairs and an outreach
events because it's quick so you can
turn over the headsets quickly and you
really get a lot of bang for your buck
flying as a bird or a plane for a few
minutes in VR it really you get all the
gasps
that you want when we demo the VR no one
throws up so far so far I have to admit
though there's one app where you're in a
cave and there's this rope bridge kind
of thing and I close my eyes until that
part is passed because I just I don't
know for whatever reason I'm just not
happy with that it's a little wobbly
rope bridge and I do get a little motion
sickness there a Tilt Brush and other
art programs are also really good for
demos Tilt Brush is an art program where
you're drawing in 3D space so you don't
even have a canvas you literally are
putting light onto the end of a brush
and it's kind of like you're painting
your painting with light in 3D so almost
like the concept of a 3D printer yes but in
a virtual mm-hmm cuz yeah just kind of
blew my mind yes um again these are
really fun to do at outreach events
because you can do a really quick demo
and then turn the headsets over quickly
you can even film a VR tour of your
library this is something that you can
I'm sure some of you that have done this
already with you're just using your cell
phone app you can do a 360 video that
even people just looking at it you know
on their tablet or their cell phone can
just use their finger and and go 360
through your library or through a still
photo but you you can actually
use an app to film a virtual tour so
that people are actually walking through
your library that's also a fun one to
demo at outreach I have to admit the
kids aren't as interested but it is a
nice way to promote your library in a
fun way and you can then upload that to
YouTube so that you know people who are
new to your system or people from other
libraries other states if they want to
look at your library they can do a
walk-through of your library if you have
a really nice old building if you have a
really cool special collection this is a
really good way to promote that as well
art and other creative programs can be
enhanced with VR
some of the VR games that let you create
in 3D but there are also museum and
artists themes they call them
walkthroughs that are kind of just where
you put on the headset and you can walk
through an environment and ways to do
this you can explore a virtual artifact
and then recreate it as a craft so if
you're doing you know a basket craft or
if you're doing one of the pottery where
people paint their pottery or any of the
other things that we sort of do as
business as usual with our craft
programs you can add the virtual reality
aspect to that and let people see a
painting or a piece of pottery or a
basket in the virtual reality they can
listen to the little spiel about its
history and then you can actually make
it and this works for all ages so
anywhere from kids up to your seniors
any of the craft programs we do you can
enhance it with that you can with music
and dance programs this lends itself
perfectly you can listen to music you
can then create using a virtual reality
keyboard or drum that is crazy to me
very like how much fun so you put the
headphone on and or headset headset on
and then you can see a piano in front of
you yes and then you can interact with
it sure enough even if
you have the cheapy like Google
Cardboard and you it doesn't have the
hand controllers you can actually strike
a piano or drum by nodding your head and
this is one that my son does and I think
oh my gosh when he grows up he's going
to have to have surgery cuz he'll just
sit there and headbang playing the
keyboard but um it is really fun and you
know that's again all ages everybody
likes doing that you can also if you're
doing anything about architecture or
building you can take a VR tour or you
can even use a sandbox program that's
what that's sort of the gaming term for
games like Minecraft or Lego or anything
where you can build they call it a
sandbox because basically you start with
an empty
desert and you build whatever you want
so you can create a structure this is
fun to do with kids especially your your
Minecraft kids even if it's not
Minecraft they can do like cooperative
builds you know everybody builds one
room in a house that way you can turn
over the headset quicker so no kid you
know hogs it and builds an entire you
know city but you know you can share the
VR but then they also get to create this
cooperative structure and you can talk
about architecture if you're doing it
with adults again it's just an it's
enhances your programming and this also
works there's walkthroughs of all kinds
of places gardens anything so it's just
it just enhances your program if you're
doing this is you know my program on
what flowers to pick you for your garden
and then maybe at the end if anybody
wants to stay and do a little virtual
tour they can and you can have that
already pre-loaded and that leads right
into virtual travel when I do my book
discussions I always try and bring in
pictures of the setting if it's set
somewhere like if the book set in Africa
I always bring in tons of pictures just
because I think it really brings it to
life so you know you can haul out your
headset and do a little virtual tour of
wherever your book is set and that
really also helps you know bring that to
life for the book discussion a lot of
libraries business as usual again
they'll do like you know a night in
Paris and you know you show a movie and
have food and and you know have the
photo booth of the Eiffel Tower or
whatever well you can add the virtual
reality tour as part of that program and
it just enhances it it's one more thing
to have another station to have set up
these are actually really popular we
have patrons that ask for you know when
is your next night in wherever a program
so it's just another idea any sort of
cultural programming with your kids if
you do like a passport club or anything
like that again they get to actually
physically walk through it hear the
sounds
really fun um and you don't have to of
course limit it just to places on Earth
your space program anything about that
if you do any kind of like weather
programming again there are things where
you can sort of you know virtually be in
the tornado or whatever so it's just
another it's another way to enhance
programming it doesn't have to be the
whole program it just has to be a part
of it and of course inside the body
anywhere people have filmed and
converted as a virtual destination there
are lots of museum walkthroughs and
those are really fun to do going to the
ocean go into the ocean of course
dinosaurs tons of virtual dinosaur
programs there are lots of fun some of
them are a little scary actually but
they're lots of fun and again that leads
us into all of our science where all
STEM focused now right and as it should
be so there are virtual safaris virtual
nature walks and again dinosaurs yes
that draws in lots of people even
grown-ups everybody loves a good
dinosaur there's lots of anatomy
software there's also a lot of physics
games one's called Bounce and there are
also things like I believe it's called
Fantastic Contraptions where you can
sort of build your Rube Goldberg
machine and see how it works in virtual
and Bounce again it's a little game
where I want to say it's kind of Angry
Birds like where you have to use physics
to bounce and rebound off of things to
score points there are also chemistry
games where the little atoms are
floating around with their little
electrons and you can match them up so
if you see two oxygens floating around
you can hook them to a hydrogen and make
a water molecule again this is good to
use with your school-age kids if you're
doing like a little periodic table
program or I mean it doesn't even have
to be that advanced if you read a story
maybe about atoms and molecules you can
just
put this game in there and it's fun for
them to actually see it as a little
introduction to chemistry and that again
there's tons of outer space applications
some are better than others so
definitely check them out first but the
ones that use actual NASA footage that's
those are always the best and you're
actually you can fly around you can fly
through the solar system can walk on
planets and this just really brings it
to life for kids um some programming
tips always test everything I know you
will but if I didn't say it I would be
remiss also plan ahead with your time
limits your equipment is probably going
to be pretty limited even if you give
everybody a cardboard headset not
everybody is going to have the phone or
the app when we do outreach the the one
we did with the 700 kids we only had two
cell phones that worked with the
headsets so we were really getting
people in and out quickly so you kind of
want to either preload an app that has a
finished end time or make sure that
people know how long they get set a
timer if you're just doing a demo you
know kind of you could even have people
sign up for a time slot or if you're
doing is a drop in I plan on doing some
drop in demos you know it's just sort of
there's people waiting in line you have
to go so so always be aware of that
watch your group size if it's a if it's
a big giant group again you know you
want to make sure that everybody gets a
good turn and that it you know it's
equitable for everybody people will hog
it I'm telling you now out of experience
so you need to sort of plan ahead what
you're going to say and you also want to
have activities for people who are
waiting so it's good to have stations or
have it part of a larger program or if
it is just a VR program and you're doing
demos make sure there's something else
to do for people in line I have a
question so in my mind if I was going to
do a program at a public library I've
often thought like okay so I by 10
of the cardboard headsets and then I'll
just have the kids bring a cell phone
but there's probably some pitfalls with
that yes because they would have to
download whatever app you're using which
means hopefully the parents have
parental controls if it's a kid cell
phone that you have to make sure that
they all had done the override and to
download the software also
having the right kind of and having the
right kind of phone and that kind of
thing now there's you can always set it
up ahead of time when people sign up for
the program hand them you know a
detailed instruction sheet make little
bookmarks with the instructions this is
the app that you need I had just been
reading about a summer reading program
in England where they used augmented
reality which is another sort of VR
component and everybody who signed up
for summer reading if they wanted to do
that part of it had to download an app
and they just handed it out as part of
their summer reading materials so you
could make sure everybody was set up
ahead of time and just know that not
it's not going to work for everyone and
that you everyone's going to have to
share so people who come in with a cell
phone that works may be there there's
will be the best one and that'll be the
one that everybody shares and always
check for new software items are added
daily when I updated this PowerPoint
yesterday I ended up adding like three
or four new pieces of software that I
hadn't seen before that had good reviews
I didn't even try them out but they were
just so cool looking I thought I'm gonna
put them on here if you have any
questions just call or email I'm
available all the time i love to talk
about this stuff i love to talk period
so you know I'm open I'm friendly I'm
not scary and then I did include this as
just so that it would be here for people
again it's probably already out of date
I updated it yesterday but I did include
some suggested games and apps that I
thought would work really well with
programs and I have one minute so i will
just very quickly call up some of my
favorites the drum kit VR are on Steam
is of course the one where you can
virtually drum Fantastic Contraption is
of course where you can build your Rube
Goldberg machine The Lab is actually
sort of a VR playroom it's really good
for demos it sounds like a science lab
that's why I'm calling that out and to
tell you it's different The Night Cafe
Vincent van Gogh that lets you walk
through the night cafe painting which is
really nice if you're doing I know
business as usual again we do art
programs with kids and we so you might
do like a Starry Night program where the
kids get a you know finger paint a big
Van Gogh picture and then you could have
them walk through one of his paintings
so cool yes there are some narrative
films that are good to use Kid Paint is
like Tilt Brush but it's more geared
toward kids and then cell phone apps
this is just a teeny tiny beginning but
there's a really cool engine one that
four-stroke auto engine for STEM
programming it lets you virtually
explore like a gas car engine again all
the Viewmaster ones they work on on any
cell phone even if you don't have the
Viewmaster there's some math where you
get to virtually solve problems and they
actually have sort of physical blocks
that you can move around and to do the
math I'm running out of time um hey but
anyway this is just a good way to get
you started let's go ahead and put your
contact information back up we are at
50 minutes but I'm happy to chat for a
little bit longer so does anyone have
any questions for Amy I know I've had
the do we have questions up there and
chat box for a while I don't see that
people are asking questions but people
are still here so I don't ask a couple
questions that I was thinking about it
seems like if you're doing a program
with kids and
you know you've got that one good cell
phone that you're sharing around I would
be concerned about you know somebody
dropping it and breaking the screen
belongs to somebody else are those
concerns that you've addressed in any
way actually even the little dollar
cardboard headsets really cushion the
phone yeah and what we found again it
was trial by fire at that STEM conference
with 700 middle schoolers we found that
we would get it all set up so really the
participants weren't touching anything
we put the elastic there's a little
elastic head strap you can get that
velcros on so we would literally strap
the thing on to the kids head and then
for the littlies we would tell them
you know keep your fingers on the sides
of the headset to keep it pressed to
your face and we had no problems with it
falling off or dropping at the demo um
and what about things like um hair and
lice and that kind of stuff any thoughts on you know we
just did not worry about it we had the
Lysol wipes but a lot of times if you're
doing it an outreach or a big group you
know it's just you take what you get I
have to admit having the pop-up wipes
there if anybody felt they needed it
they could use it and I won't lie the
cardboard headsets you can't help it
they will get a grease spot on the
forehead area and you just have to let
it go we also have another question do
you have any thoughts on partnering with
outside organizations to bring in VR
programming of course and I should
probably let Suzanne field this one
because she has an option that will be
available from the State Library are you
talking about our LSTA grants
yes I don't know enough about that
but you probably know more than I do I
know that LSTA a grants are sometimes
available for innovative technology
programs so if you wanted to fill out
the LSTA a grants for for this that might
be something that might get funded um um
I don't know when the deadlines are when
the deadline is for that or if it has
just passed I feel like we're sort of in
the cycle so that's the best I can do on that
yes and also there are places like your
local Best Buy or electronic store or
Gamestop they will occasionally have
demos there I don't know how if they
could bring it off site or not but it's
definitely worth trying also you know
some of your local businesses are going
to have VR just that they use for
training so that's always an option or
if you have a patron that you know is
really techie maybe they've been in
talking about it they'd probably be
willing to come in and you know maybe
bring their headset and a laptop or
whatever and then you could do a demo I
love that idea of reaching out to
patrons because more often than not
there's hopefully gonna be someone in
your community that might be you know
more excited about this than you are yes
and I will say we have a patron that
offered their 360 camera that they just
bought for their own use to film a
walkthrough of the library so that was
just an opportunity that fell in our lap
that we actually I don't even know how
it came up i think we had the Cardboard
headset out advertising a program and
they're like oh you know I have that
camera blah blah blah blah and then we
just partnered up with him so you just
never know what's gonna happen that's
great ok well thank you so much Amy.
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