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History of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)

https://kidscodecs.com/history-vr-ar/

What is Virtual Reality?

http://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/what-is-virtual-reality.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/virtual-reality-gets-real/403225/
https://medium.com/@blaurel/what-is-virtual-reality-77b876d829ba#.8zpk1nbl7

History of Virtual Reality

https://youtu.be/43mA_ypfwKg
http://bibblio.org/o/MJ/reality-check-a-history-of-virtual-reality

How Does Virtual Reality Work?

https://youtu.be/zpTvoMjZDm4

Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/solutions/virtual-reality/vr-ar-mr-sorry-im-confused/
http://www.adnews.com.au/opinion/ar-vs-vr-why-augmented-reality-is-winning-the-race
http://www.augment.com/blog/virtual-reality-vs-augmented-reality/

Augmented Reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_augmented_reality_software

Stanley G. Weinbaum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_G._Weinbaum

Link Trainer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer
https://youtu.be/5kmmKj7fbnI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Albert_Link

Flight Simulators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator

Ivan Sutherland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/PDFs/p757-sutherland.pdf
http://jalopnik.com/the-first-real-object-ever-3d-scanned-and-rendered-was-494241353

Sword of Damocles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual_reality)

Head Mounted Display

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display

Sensorama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorama
http://www.mortonheilig.com/InventorVR.html
http://www.sensorama3d.com/sensorama2.html

Jaron Lanier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/dec/29/games.academicexperts

Virtual Boy Game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy
http://www.androidcentral.com/unofficial-virtual-boy-lets-you-enjoy-classic-nintendo-games-google-cardboard

HTC Vive

https://www.htcvive.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Vive

Oculus Rift

https://www.oculus.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift

Samsung Gear VR

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-vr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Gear_VR

Playstation VR

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstation-vr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_VR

Google Cardboard

https://vr.google.com/cardboard/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cardboard

Fove Headset

http://www.getfove.com/

OSVR Headset

http://www.osvr.org/
http://developer.osvr.org/

What is VR Sickness?

https://kidscodecs.com/vr-sickness/

Virtual Reality Sickness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness

Why Does Some Virtual Reality Make People Sick?

http://www.livescience.com/54478-why-vr-makes-you-sick.html

Oculus Rift VR Motion Sickness: 11 Ways to Prevent It

http://riftinfo.com/oculus-rift-motion-sickness-11-techniques-to-prevent-it

How to Reduce VR Sickness? Just Add a Virtual Nose

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/reduce-vr-sickness-just-add-virtual-nose/

For Virtual Reality Creators, Motion Sickness a Real Issue

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-virtual-reality-creators-motion-sickness.html

Why Does Virtual Reality Make You Want to Puke?

http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/virtual-reality-sickness-science/

Building VR/AR Applications in School

https://kidscodecs.com/uw-vr-ar-apps/

Inside the ‘world’s first HoloLens class’: UW computer science students show mixed reality projects

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/worlds-first-hololens-class-uw-computer-science-students-show-off-mixed-reality-projects/

Students demonstrate their HoloLens apps after a quarter of VR and AR design

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/10/students-demonstrate-their-hololens-apps-after-a-quarter-of-vr-and-ar-design/

CSE 481 Virtual and Augmented Reality Capstone

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481v/16sp/home.php
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481v/16sp/deliverables.php
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiOqneQsJNDW4RZGuY4cP-A
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSCK7y_AEdoZLOjca-f0yNCtGl1MakBWt
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSCK7y_AEdoZG5Oouj6qlTgSr6T0OVUVo
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7TrQsdQgJI2FfcrG6dV5q-9xpPH05QM7B2-3EDV_vQ/edit

CSE 481v Speakers

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481v/16sp/speakers.php

CSE 481v Teams

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481v/16sp/teams.php

Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~kemelmi/

Steven Seitz

https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/seitz
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~seitz/

Titan Fightin’

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mkibbe/capstone/index.html
https://youtu.be/fmeG-QtoSug
https://youtu.be/Y55IWfOfbYM

DawgFights

http://students.washington.edu/jbuscher/
http://students.washington.edu/jbuscher/Videos/Dawgfights.mp4
http://students.washington.edu/jbuscher/Videos/DawgfightsLoop.mp4

HOLOCOOKING

http://roxanneluo.github.io/
https://youtu.be/wp-0IrsO5ns

Keyboard

http://holokeyboard.herokuapp.com/
https://youtu.be/cJQyDV14-3M

HoloChess

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~cooperdj/vr/
https://youtu.be/qqmXPj-oIN4

Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab)

https://www.hitl.washington.edu/home/

Neal Stephenson

https://youtu.be/c5Kq8xOwYO4
http://www.nealstephenson.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

Nick Whiting: How to Make VR Content Quickly

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-whiting-49998910
https://youtu.be/UeRGpkEb368

Brian Murphy: Sculpting with Light

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-murphy-8ba701
https://youtu.be/GzOAzRdVwmI

Michael Abrash:


https://youtu.be/iGS1a3YxjOA

Michael Fourlay: Insider Tips for Developing on VR & AR Platforms

https://youtu.be/xPEAnonGywQ

Alex Kipman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/akipman
https://twitter.com/akipman

HoloLens

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/

HTC Vive

https://www.htcvive.com/

Unity

https://unity3d.com/

How to be a Lousy Programmer

https://kidscodecs.com/how-to-be-lousy-programmer/

What do good programmers know or do that lousy programmers do not?

https://www.quora.com/What-do-good-programmers-know-or-do-that-lousy-programmers-do-not

When would someone be considered a bad programmer?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3851/when-would-someone-be-considered-a-bad-programmer

10 Ways to be a Bad Programmer

https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/10-ways-to-be-a-bad-programmer/

What Makes Bad Programmers Different?

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/what-makes-bad-programmers-different/240001941
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/what-makes-great-programmers-different/240001472

The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist

http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-developer-a-programmer-and-a-computer-scientist/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_scientist

Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

The Cloud

https://kidscodecs.com/cloud/

Cloud Computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/
https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/what-is-cloud-computing
http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf

Cloud Computing Comparison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing_comparison

Cloud Storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage

Imagine: Build a Car

https://kidscodecs.com/imagine-building-a-car/

Design Thinking

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/14/tim-brown-ideo-leadership-managing-design.html
http://designthinkingmovie.com/
http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=409
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking
http://www.creativityatwork.com/design-thinking-strategy-for-innovation/

Design Thinking for Educators

http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/

Design & Thinking (documentary)

http://designthinkingmovie.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilcaXYnluU

IDEO Design Thinking Blog

http://designthinking.ideo.com/

How to Design a Computer Program

http://www.yacoset.com/Home/how-to-design-a-computer-program
http://www.yacoset.com/Home/your-first-programming-assignment

How to Become a Programmer: 8 Steps to Building an App from Scratch

Scroll down to see the full article.
https://www.codementor.io/learn-programming/how-to-build-app-from-scratch-beginner-programmer

Software Systems Development Life Cycle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle

Software Development Process

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process

STEAM Event Ideas

https://kidscodecs.com/how-to-steam-event-ideas/

Robot Turtles

http://www.robotturtles.com/
http://www.thinkfun.com/robotturtles/adventure/

Code Monkey Island

http://codemonkeyplanet.com/

littleCodr

http://www.littlecodr.com/
https://vimeo.com/129334615

Bits and Bytes

http://www.bitsandbytes.cards/

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/
https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/

Scratch, Jr.

https://www.scratchjr.org/
https://www.scratchjr.org/teach.html

Tynker

https://www.tynker.com

The Foos

http://thefoos.com

Run Marco!

https://marco.allcancode.com

Erase All Kittens

https://eraseallkittens.com/

CodingFarmer

http://mathandcoding.org/codingfarmers.html

Codea

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

SoloLearn Code Playground Apps

http://www.sololearn.com/

Hopscotch

http://gethopscotch.com

Move the Turtle

http://movetheturtle.com

Sphero

http://www.sphero.com/
http://www.sphero.com/education

Dot and Dash (Wonder Workshop)

https://www.makewonder.com/
https://teachers.makewonder.com/

Bitsbox

http://bitsbox.com

Computer Science (CS) Unplugged

http://csunplugged.org/

Computing at School

Some excellent CS Unplugged activities, plus an online community that shares ideas.
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/about
http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/door

Barefoot Computing

Another great source of CS Unplugged activities.
http://barefootcas.org.uk/

Lauren Ipsum Book

https://nostarch.com/laurenipsum

Computational Fairytale Books

http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Fairy-Tales-Jeremy-Kubica/dp/1477550291/
http://www.amazon.com/Practices-Spell-Design-Jeremy-Kubica/dp/1481921916
https://www.nostarch.com/searchtale

STEAM Tool Matrix

An updated list of board games, robots, visual programming languages, and other STEAM tools, organized into a matrix sorted by grade level.
https://kidscodecs.com/steam-tools

Graph Theory

https://kidscodecs.com/graph-theory/

Maps and Distance

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2721

Graph Theory at MIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010/video-lectures/lecture-6-graph-theory-and-coloring/

PageRank

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2011/09/20/pagerank-backbone-of-google/

Math for Seven Year Olds: Euclidean Paths and Circuits

http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-seven-year-olds-graph-coloring-chromatic-numbers-eulerian-paths/

Seven Bridges of Konigsburg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OiZrmnni9Y

Discrete Math: Propositional Logic and Logic Circuits

https://kidscodecs.com/discrete-math-propositional-logic-logic-circuits/

ChucK

https://kidscodecs.com/chuck/

Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/1/7a32089-b9b1-47bd-8304-bdee71b27e2c/PMDA_Ch03.pdf

Online ChucK course from CalArts

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/introduction-to-programming-for-musicians-and-digital-artists-iii/sessions/basics-sound-waves-and-chuck-programming

ChucK programming guide

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/program/ugen.html

Create instruments with ChucK

https://blog.frogslayer.com/making-new-instruments-with-chuck/

Chimera IDE

http://chuck.stanford.edu/release/

Ocarina

http://www.gewang.com/ocarina/

Stanford Laptop Orchestra

http://slork.stanford.edu/


http://mopho.stanford.edu/

Ge Wang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpk461T6l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHtCAAj8jFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T8kcSRLL0

Holiday Steam Gifts

https://kidscodecs.com/holiday-steam-gifts-2016/

Coding and STEAM Tools Matrix

A periodically updated list of tools organized by grade levels.
https://kidscodecs.com/steam-tools

October 2016 Holiday STEAM Gift Guide

A PDF of the five pages from the current print magazine.
https://kidscodecs.com/coding-steam-gift-guide