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NBA star Shaquille O’Neal was shown on video wearing the Magic Leap One and
talking about how he watched a basketball game be played on his coffee table. All of
that sensation is par for the course of this company’s marketing strategy, filling up the
hype while not really showing us any real content. This does not really make me want to
be the first to try to develop for this platform, although I am still cautiously optimistic
about future iterations.

Video of Shaquille O’neal Wearing Magic Leap’s New AR Glasses

5.​ ​Three Must Read Articles

Virtual Reality Series by Paul Driver

What Is Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality will change education forever! Virtual reality will change cinema forever!
Virtual reality will change how we work, rest, play and travel forever! Virtual reality is the
“next big thing” (again), and these are just a few of the exuberant claims we have been
hearing about the ways in which VR may transform our lives.
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/01/22/virtual-reality

How Can We Use Virtual Reality to Teach English?

Incorporating new technologies into our teaching practice does not mean we need to
reinvent the pedagogic wheel. The learning principles that underpin many of the tasks,
activities and approaches we commonly use today can be improved, extended or even

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