Today's field trip to the Four Eyes Lab in the Computer Science Department and the Media Arts and Technology Program was really an exciting and eye-opening experience. Through the presentation and demonstration of the professor and his research team, I got to know briefly about their current work on computer vision and imaging, perceptual interfaces, multimodal interaction, human-computer interaction, gesture recognition, and artificial intelligence. I felt both good and bad at the same time when I walked into the 3-story high chamber of the amazing AlloSphere and got captivated immediately like a kid in the Disneyland. In this spherical space providing fully immersive, interactive, stereoscopic, and virtual environments, I felt so good when I looked around with a pair of 3D glasses and tried to hold back my hand from reaching out and attempting to catch an "atom" flowing towards my face; and I felt bad for not knowing much about all these dazzling technologies and not even knowing about the existence of such incredible facilities on the very campus I came to almost every day.
Excited by the prospect these technologies would bring, I couldn't help but think about the language education issue I mostly concern about. Can we use videos or the computational photographing technique introduced today to take pictures of whatever place and country we are interested in to create a virtual 3D immersion environment in a place like the AlloSphere to help language learners practice language skills while experiencing the real life of another country without actually being there?
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