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you don’t respond after 30 minutes it will contact
Augmented Reality your Care Providers.
If you fail to respond, then the app notifies up to 3
Explained “care providers are notified by email, text message/
By Sandy Berger, Compu-KISS SMS, or both. Emails also include the last known
location and battery level of your device,
www.compukiss.com When first installing, you will be prompted to com-
Sandy (at) compukiss.com
plete the names, mobile phone numbers, and email
of the user and for each care provider. The simple
set a schedule for check-in time.
If you want to be up-to-date in the high tech Other great uses for this app:
world you need to understand the terms VR
and AR. They are both amazing technologies Automatic check-in of friends and family that
that are quickly moving into our everyday live along
world.
Preface • Be alerted if your kids at college don’t re-
It has always been a joy to be transported to a spond to the app.
different time and place. The Greeks, Romans, • Kids that should respond when they arrive
and American Indians did this for their listen- home from school
• A teenager out on a date that needs to re-
ers by telling wonderful stories. These story spond at certain tme of the evening
tellers transported their listeners to alternative EyeOn requires IOS 6.o or later or Android.
realities. With radio we were immersed in ta-
les like Fibber McGee and Molly where we
could listen and vividly imagine being right in
the McGee’s home. Then came movies, tele-
vision, and gaming devices. These devices
totally immersed us in their stories.
Now we have moved on even farther
into other realities and amplified realities with
two newer technologies: Virtual Reality (VR)
and Augmented Reality (AR).
Virtual Reality Explained
Virtual Reality replicates an environment that
lets you see and feel like you are in another
world. This is generally done by wearing gog-
gles which put a screen in front of your eyes Meeting Dates
to show you that new world. Some of these
VR devices have built-in audio and vibrations
and other haptic feedback that help to make March 11, 2017 Security
the new world feel quite real. April 15, 2017 TBD
Many have immersive 360 degree visu-
al capabilities so you are completely sur- December 9, 2017 Holiday Party
rounded by the new world. Often you can in-
teract with that new world as when you might Note: January and April are not on the
play a VR game. This new storytelling tech- second Saturday.
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APCUG itself is not a user group; only user
groups themselves are members. APCUG’s
product and service are offered to group
leaders, who can then share them with their
members.
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