In their work with VFX, Territory takes initiative by being as involved in the filming process as much as possible, working with the direction to create shots that feel natural with the actors and post-production elements. In their work on Jupiter Ascending, Territory provided the actors with physical elements to interact with which allowed the actor to
Learned a lot about gamification and AR. (See read more)
Also looked into the conventional thoughts toward study and what is necessary to learn a language
Coolest tidbits
Experts believe that languages can be learned in a cognizant level in just three months of intensive training.
There are numerous opportunities for people who want to learn a language outside of school (even without any cost!)
When starting a language, it is more difficult because the brain hasn’t yet realized that what you’re learning is a “language” or rather it doesn’t recognize it as such. This switch eventually happens that that’s what allows people to speak smoothly.
Learning a language strengthens your brain, literally! it physically changes
Daily study is critical
Speaking is also critical
Augmented reality
What is it?
· Combination of real and virtual content that is interactive, performs in real time, and is registered within the real world. There are numerous uses for augmented reality. It can be used for driving directions that visibly highlighting the desired route (from the driver’s perspective). to showcase suggested changes to a physical space, or even allow for realistic looking skype calls. Through augmented reality, users are able to experience information and ideas integrated into their physical space. No longer is a separate screen needed for difference devices and objects. Instead, the entire digital sphere becomes accessible in the physical world. Phone calls can be answered without picking up and phone and photos can be taken with the blink of an eye.
· Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds, haptic feedback and smell to the natural world as it exists.
Gamification + Augmented reality
The benefits of augmented reality are not just centered around novelty –the technology can increase the potential for conversational learning. Children have been observed to learn better in groups and augmented reality educational tools help to provide a more 3D focal point for students to gather around. (http://www.online-educa.com/OEB_Newsportal/the-game-of-motivation-gamification-and-augmented-reality-in-education/)
Simulators, in general, allow us to learn how to do but normally not how to react. Simulators based on virtual and augmented reality can lead to a higher level experience in which the user can explore a large number of pieces and parts in detail "penetrating" in them in a way not possible in reality – for example, when visiting or exploring a jet engine. Virtual and augmented reality systems can provide an added feeling of presence and immersion of great value in education and training. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6826187&tag=1)
If these requirements are met, the subjects may have cognitive and emotional experiences that can provide new insights into what they are studying. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6826187&tag=1)
It allows intuitively to bring the reality into study; • It provides emotional and cognitive experiences that involve students in the rational learning effort; • It gives correct information about the system according to the settings, which are relevant to test ideas and their feasibility; • It permits new ways of representing the reality under study.
Habits are formed slowly over time through repetition of an activity. So how do we get ourselves to do things consistently?
Willpower is
“The willpower response is a reaction to an internal conflict. You want to do one thing, such as smoke a cigarette or supersize your lunch, but know you shouldn’t. Or you know you should do something, like file your taxes or go to the gym, but you’d rather do nothing.”; under prefrontal cortex
one of the most replicated findings about willpower is that it seems to be finite—that is, we only have so much and it runs out as we use it. -- We can look at willpower like a muscle—it can get exhausted by overuse, but just like our physical muscles, there are some researchers who believe we might be able to strengthen our willpower by training it.
I also found an interesting article and ted talk about how important it is to keep your goals to yourself, which I think would also be true for habit forming. Basically, it was saying that if you tell people your goals and they applaud you then you get the dopamine dump that you would normally get when you actually achieve something.
Below are some interesting quotes (mostly from my man CS Lewis) that I think apply to habits:
“Good company corrupts good character” - The Bible
“ [E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.” - CS Lewis
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
Naomi's infographic was really interesting to me because my boyfriend is actually writing a research paper about the same subject right now. So seeing her visual representation was more interesting next to his research. She told an engaging story and moved through the elements and ideas in a logical way. I thought that her illustrations were clear and clean and definitely added to the communication without distracting from the words and ideas. The margins seemed consistant and her text sizes were a good standard.
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