alice-teacher Alice Player Beta Live!

[Donald Slater]

Robert,
TheAlice 3  VR-Beta release has just come out, 

	http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta-vr/ <http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3-beta-vr/>

This release currently supports the Oculus Rift and Rift S and the HTC Vive with limited functionality. See the web page listed above for more details. All that I can add to what is on the page is that you will need a computer that will run Oculus (which I understand is Windows only) and for the Vive you will need Steam and the Steam plug-in.

The computer I used when working with the Oculus version was very beefy. I do not know what the minimum specs would be, but I do not think that the Alice Player really increase the machine spec requirements much more than Oculus itself.

If you are looking for next year, we would like to be supporting other VR platforms, but the timing on their implementation is still to be determined.

Eric Brown, Director of the Alice Project, may have more thoughts.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project

> On Oct 23, 2019, at 11:55 AM, NIMMO, ROBERT <Robert.Nimmo at vernonct.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Do you have a VR system that you are recommending to use with Alica?
> 
> Bob Nimmo
> Business / Computer Science Teacher
> Robotics Club Mentor
> Rockville High School
> Vernon, Connecticut
> 
> Let all our students become powerful thinkers, effective collaborators, and compassionate contributors in preparation for success in a dynamic, interdependent world.
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> ________________________________________
> From: alice-teachers <alice-teachers-bounces+robert.nimmo=vernonct.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on behalf of Eric Brown <ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:47 PM
> To: Alice educators
> Subject: alice-teacher Alice Player Beta Live!
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> We are super excited to launch the beta of the player!  You can read more about it here (it reiterates some of the things I shared with this mailing list in our last update):
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.alice.org_alice-2Dplayer-2Dbeta-2Dlive_&d=DwICAg&c=3dldK24HquEV1jQbS8Zy4g&r=09CkcMl1EuTrQWwjbbWpyi4tXotW0exn6LL1_zgCQJE&m=n1tKWit474G2UgC4RyMtTu6i1PVZH6bQThXCZerLkyU&s=OBlK3V93fooH32U-eOCQVLtLAghtsmScN_KIw1pvX14&e=
> 
> Or you can jump straight to the download page and give it a try:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.alice.org_get-2Dalice_alice-2D3-2Dbeta-2Dvr_&d=DwICAg&c=3dldK24HquEV1jQbS8Zy4g&r=09CkcMl1EuTrQWwjbbWpyi4tXotW0exn6LL1_zgCQJE&m=n1tKWit474G2UgC4RyMtTu6i1PVZH6bQThXCZerLkyU&s=SRNMeOwXoyrYEvMRwu0J1D6IjpG-gWv9PUMqXDs9P5Y&e=
> 
> We will definitely be rolling out updates more regularly now as we squash bugs and implement more VR controls.  I will continue to send out mail updates to this list so keep a look out for those.
> 
> I apologies for the delay and any pain it caused teachers that were counting on an earlier release for use with your students.  Please let us know any and all feedback and we would love for you to share with us your experiences.
> 
> I want to thank everyone that took the time to fill out our educator/administrator survey.  This information will be very valuable to us.  If you have not already completed it we would greatly appreciate it if you could take the time to do so.  We would also appreciate it if you would share the survey with anyone else you know that is using Alice:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.surveymonkey.com_r_BRR2597&d=DwICAg&c=3dldK24HquEV1jQbS8Zy4g&r=09CkcMl1EuTrQWwjbbWpyi4tXotW0exn6LL1_zgCQJE&m=n1tKWit474G2UgC4RyMtTu6i1PVZH6bQThXCZerLkyU&s=P-aNGGAwgALgdzg95kQwWyk3OI0CQFiFWHRBhT408w0&e=
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Eric
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