From lscteach at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 15:51:26 2020 From: lscteach at gmail.com (Laurie Cohen) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 15:51:26 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher Using Alice with disabled adults? Message-ID: Hi. I haven't taught / used Alice in a few years, but have been asked to create a short non-credit course for the community college, for their Challenge Program: for adults with developmental disabilities. (I have taught Intro to Web deign, Graphic Design, and other computer skills for this population). I thought these students would have a great time learning Alice 2.x and creating some fun animations. Does anyone possibly already have a curriculum they would suggest I use? The semester is: 10- 1.25 hour sessions. If not specifically for this population, I would use elementary school-level. Thanks in advance! *Laurie Solomon Cohen* 240-793-1269 LSCTeach at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I haven't taught / used Alice in a few years, but have been asked to create a short non-credit course for the community college, for their Challenge Program: for adults with developmental disabilities. (I have taught Intro to Web deign, Graphic Design, and other computer skills for this population). I thought these students would have a great time learning Alice 2.x and creating some fun animations. Does anyone possibly already have a curriculum they would suggest I use? The semester is: 10- 1.25 hour sessions. If not specifically for this population, I would use elementary school-level. Thanks in advance! Laurie Solomon Cohen 240-793-1269 LSCTeach at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The materials are located at > www.lycoming.edu/~pelusoem/Alice_10_week_course.zip. > > Best wishes, > > Eileen Peluso > > > > Eileen M. Peluso, PhD > > Associate Provost for Assessment and Accreditation > > Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences > > Lycoming College > > One College Place > > Box 157 > > Williamsport, PA 17701 > > pelusoem at lycoming.edu > > [image: lycoming-college-email-signature-3] > > > > > > *From:* alice-teachers lycoming.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Laurie Cohen > *Sent:* Monday, February 3, 2020 3:51 PM > *To:* Alice educators > *Subject:* alice-teacher Using Alice with disabled adults? > > > > Hi. I haven't taught / used Alice in a few years, but have been asked to > create a short non-credit course for the community college, for their > Challenge Program: for adults with developmental disabilities. (I have > taught Intro to Web deign, Graphic Design, and other computer skills for > this population). I thought these students would have a great time learning > Alice 2.x and creating some fun animations. > > Does anyone possibly already have a curriculum they would suggest I use? > The semester is: 10- 1.25 hour sessions. > > If not specifically for this population, I would use elementary > school-level. > > Thanks in advance! > > > > *Laurie Solomon Cohen* > > 240-793-1269 > > LSCTeach at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > In Alice 2, we used to use ?while the mouse is pressed? and other such ?while? events. Is there an equivalent in Alice 3? > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 [cid:75BEE40E-4F14-49E1-9F7B-C132AAAE0451 at SXU.local] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: screenshot.png Type: image/png Size: 126866 bytes Desc: screenshot.png URL: From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Mon Feb 17 15:21:26 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:21:26 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 equivalent of while events In-Reply-To: References: <06316144-9B52-474E-9848-00D6E66CFF27@sxu.edu> Message-ID: <94FBB247-137A-447B-A98B-A8F235262446@sxu.edu> Don, thanks. I see that that works nicely for key events. See screenshot for how I did it. Duration 0 works for 1 frame of animation, so you can get precise control. The key events are even more flexible because of the heldKeyPolicy. But my hands are really tied with mouse control, because there is no heldMousePolicy. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 [cid:323DD6C8-B0F7-4CA5-962E-1CDB82544A05 at SXU.local] On Feb 17, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Donald Slater > wrote: James, We have not implemented that mouse event for Alice 3. The closest we come is with keyPress events and using the add details modifiers heldKeyPolicy and multipleEventPolicy. See the attached screen shot for an example. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Has anyone in the community found any other work-arounds? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: In Alice 2, we used to use ?while the mouse is pressed? and other such ?while? events. Is there an equivalent in Alice 3? James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 18, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > Is there an Alice 3 equivalent of Alice 2?s while (begin, during, end) events? The only way to halt and action in the middle was to put code in the ?during? portion of the event. Then when the condition became false, whatever the code was doing is immediately stopped. > > I found these while events in Alice 2 to be so powerful, that I didn?t even need to teach while loops for any purpose. I think I can do what I want with while loops, but it will be more difficult to teach. > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From don at alice.org Tue Feb 18 12:36:38 2020 From: don at alice.org (Don Slater) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:36:38 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher events without if statements In-Reply-To: <0F0BC7DF-2611-4F40-8DFA-961BB5EFCAE7@sxu.edu> References: <0F0BC7DF-2611-4F40-8DFA-961BB5EFCAE7@sxu.edu> Message-ID: James, It seems that I have been nothing but a disappointment to you this week. There really is not a way that I have found to implement the functionality that you are looking for. Perhaps the community has thoughts? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 17, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > In Alice 3, is there a way to handle different key events before introducing if blocks? In Alice 2, we used to use a separate event for each key, and then call a method. In Alice 3, I have to use ?if event isKey(key)? in an if structure in order to call separate procedures for separate keys. (See screenshot.) Is there another way? I wanted to delay teaching if blocks just a little longer. > > James > ? > James Vanderhyde > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Computer Science > Saint Xavier University > 3700 W. 103rd St. > Chicago, IL 60655 > 773-298-3454 > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vanderhyde at sxu.edu Tue Feb 18 13:32:31 2020 From: vanderhyde at sxu.edu (Vanderhyde, James) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:32:31 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher events without if statements In-Reply-To: References: <0F0BC7DF-2611-4F40-8DFA-961BB5EFCAE7@sxu.edu> Message-ID: <6E86DCFC-FA63-465B-9C1B-7A4490B5A6F9@sxu.edu> Don, thanks for your help. It seems like key events are better, because the programmer can access the pressed/released options. On the other hand mouse click events are better, because the programmer can specify exactly which objects can be clicked on. I wish both types of events had both features. I can almost get the same functionality as ?while something is true? by adding a timer event with the time set to 0. Then it is triggered every frame and I can check something with an if block. Most of the things we needed to do with ?while something is true? or ?when something becomes true? have to do with collision detection anyway, and now there is an event for that. I?m just going to have to rearrange the order I teach some things, so collision detection can go earlier and things that in Alice 3 require if blocks can go later. Apparently there is no equivalent of the ?during? part of an Alice 2 event, but that was always something of a hack anyway. Objects can get into weird states when they stop in the middle of doing something. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 On Feb 18, 2020, at 11:36 AM, Don Slater > wrote: James, It seems that I have been nothing but a disappointment to you this week. There really is not a way that I have found to implement the functionality that you are looking for. Perhaps the community has thoughts? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Feb 17, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: In Alice 3, is there a way to handle different key events before introducing if blocks? In Alice 2, we used to use a separate event for each key, and then call a method. In Alice 3, I have to use ?if event isKey(key)? in an if structure in order to call separate procedures for separate keys. (See screenshot.) Is there another way? I wanted to delay teaching if blocks just a little longer. James ? 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URL: From SharickE at tesd.net Tue Feb 18 12:47:29 2020 From: SharickE at tesd.net (Sharick, Edward) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:47:29 +0000 Subject: alice-teacher events without if statements In-Reply-To: References: <0F0BC7DF-2611-4F40-8DFA-961BB5EFCAE7@sxu.edu>, Message-ID: James, Here's a possible idea if you don't want to teach if statements yet. You could always give them starter code that has the keys defined and for each key press you call some method. Then they would just have to program the methods that are called but wouldn't have to even look at the initializeEventListeners method. I don't know what topics exactly you were going to teach but I sometimes do this to avoid talking about topics that I haven't taught yet and don't want to talk about yet. -Eddie Sharick ________________________________ From: alice-teachers on behalf of Don Slater Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:36 PM To: Alice Teachers Subject: Re: alice-teacher events without if statements This message was sent from outside the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District. James, It seems that I have been nothing but a disappointment to you this week. There really is not a way that I have found to implement the functionality that you are looking for. Perhaps the community has thoughts? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project On Feb 17, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Vanderhyde, James > wrote: In Alice 3, is there a way to handle different key events before introducing if blocks? In Alice 2, we used to use a separate event for each key, and then call a method. In Alice 3, I have to use ?if event isKey(key)? in an if structure in order to call separate procedures for separate keys. (See screenshot.) Is there another way? I wanted to delay teaching if blocks just a little longer. James ? James Vanderhyde Associate Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Saint Xavier University 3700 W. 103rd St. Chicago, IL 60655 773-298-3454 _______________________________________________ alice-teachers mailing list alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu To change settings or unsubscribe visit: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From don at alice.org Tue Feb 25 07:32:42 2020 From: don at alice.org (Don Slater) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:32:42 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher Missing feature: control of lights In-Reply-To: <56718217-BFD0-48E0-AC65-A2FE23627001@sxu.edu> References: <56718217-BFD0-48E0-AC65-A2FE23627001@sxu.edu> Message-ID: James, The lighting objects in Alice 2 were not, unfortunately, implemented in Alice 3. The closest we came was the ability to modify the light from above and the light from below as properties of the Scene class, All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 24, 2020, at 10:18 AM, Vanderhyde, James wrote: > > In Alice 2, we could control the direction of the light source, and even create moveable light sources as part of the scene. To all appearances, the Alice 3 graphics engine looks much better, so there should be support for lights. 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Are the students able to click on and go to the tabs that are visible myFirstMethod and iniitializeEventListeners? Are the student able to navigate to the sink and swim methods by selecting them from the class menu (the yellow hexagon next to initializeEventListeners?) Are the students able to create new procedures, and the tabs will then appear? If they do this, are they able to copy the code from the problematic procedures to the new procedures? Will the new procedures execute? If you minimize the Alice Window in the OS and then reopen it, do the tabs appear? If you save the project, quit Alice, and then restart Alice, does the problem reoccur? If the students save their project and take the to a different machine to open them, does the problem re-occur? Is it possible to re0install Alice n one of the machines to see if the problem still occurs? Is it possible for you to send us one of the projects? Please keep us posted? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 25, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Lyndsey Kratzberg via alice-teachers wrote: > > I have not seen this issue before this semester. Students are adding objects and creating methods within classes. Later, when they want to view the method, the tab will not open. The method appears in the screen, but you can?t make adjustments within the class. The examples below show that the method appears, but there is no tab for the class or method. Is this a setting that may have gotten changed? > > > > > > > > Lyndsey Kratzberg > Computer Science Teacher > Olathe East High School > 14545 W. 127th St, Olathe, KS 66062 > 913-780-7120 > Email: lakratzberg at olatheschools.org > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is from the Olathe Public Schools. The message and any attachments may be confidential or privileged and are intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the addressee. 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URL: From sdwteach at bellsouth.net Thu Feb 27 16:14:15 2020 From: sdwteach at bellsouth.net (Sheree Wilder) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:14:15 -0600 Subject: alice-teacher VR oculus rift and rift s References: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707.ref@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707@bellsouth.net> Hi, My school is looking into purchasing the oculus rift or rift s for next year as we will be furnishing a stem lab. We currently teach Alice 3 and hope to take advantage of the new VR integration feature compatible with Oculus. Any help regarding Oculus Rift vs Rift S and computer suggestions would be greatly appreciated. On the Oculus website it indicates that neither of these are available and the suggested computers are no longer supported??? I wondered if any of you are successfully using this feature and with what equipment, if so. Thank you, Sheree Wilder Robotics/STEM Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy 600 Savoy Road Youngsville, LA 70592 Sent from my iPhone From gflint at mcsmt.org Thu Feb 27 17:38:04 2020 From: gflint at mcsmt.org (Garth Flint) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:38:04 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher VR oculus rift and rift s In-Reply-To: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707@bellsouth.net> References: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707.ref@bellsouth.net> <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: I am using an Oculus Rift S on an older i7. The computer specs are really not that critical, it is the video card that takes the brunt of the work. I had to buy a good video card for this i7. I teach a game making class at the high school level using Unity and am starting to learn Unreal Engine. Unreal is built for Oculus is the reason I am switching from Unity. Next on the agenda is Alice 3 but it does not look ready for students yet. Tutorials always lag behind hardware development. Garth Flint Technology Coordinator Missoula Catholic Schools (406)-531-7497 On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:04 PM Sheree Wilder wrote: > Hi, > My school is looking into purchasing the oculus rift or rift s for next > year as we will be furnishing a stem lab. We currently teach Alice 3 and > hope to take advantage of the new VR integration feature compatible with > Oculus. Any help regarding Oculus Rift vs Rift S and computer suggestions > would be greatly appreciated. On the Oculus website it indicates that > neither of these are available and the suggested computers are no longer > supported??? I wondered if any of you are successfully using this feature > and with what equipment, if so. > Thank you, > Sheree Wilder > Robotics/STEM > Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy > 600 Savoy Road > Youngsville, LA 70592 > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Feb 27 17:47:15 2020 From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:47:15 -0500 Subject: alice-teacher VR oculus rift and rift s In-Reply-To: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707@bellsouth.net> References: <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707.ref@bellsouth.net> <1BBCE57B-31C5-434B-AEDD-59A4FBAC9707@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <3EB426DE-00D8-466F-8BAC-98EE10788B4E@andrew.cmu.edu> Sheree, As Garth indicated, the most critical component is the graphics card? I purchased the Ride-S on Amazon, and bought this laptop at Best Buy Lenovo - Legion Y540 17.3" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - 1TB Solid State Drive - Black Model: 81Q4008EUS SKU: 6367808 It is not the most high end gaming computer by any means, but it is doing everything that I have asked of it so far. We now have some quick reference docs on the Alice 3 Resources How To page on the Alice website that may be somewhat helpful http://www.alice.org/resources/alice-3-how-tos/ Hopefully some videos will appear soon. Let us know if you have any questions / concerns as you explore this functionality. All the best, Don Slater Alice Project > On Feb 27, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Sheree Wilder wrote: > > Hi, > My school is looking into purchasing the oculus rift or rift s for next year as we will be furnishing a stem lab. We currently teach Alice 3 and hope to take advantage of the new VR integration feature compatible with Oculus. Any help regarding Oculus Rift vs Rift S and computer suggestions would be greatly appreciated. On the Oculus website it indicates that neither of these are available and the suggested computers are no longer supported??? I wondered if any of you are successfully using this feature and with what equipment, if so. > Thank you, > Sheree Wilder > Robotics/STEM > Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy > 600 Savoy Road > Youngsville, LA 70592 > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sdwteach at bellsouth.net Thu Feb 27 17:53:21 2020 From: sdwteach at bellsouth.net (Sheree Wilder) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:53:21 -0600 Subject: alice-teacher VR oculus rift and rift s In-Reply-To: <3EB426DE-00D8-466F-8BAC-98EE10788B4E@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3EB426DE-00D8-466F-8BAC-98EE10788B4E@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <9D0B14BA-45F9-4897-AA11-A6667546CD9A@bellsouth.net> Thank you! Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 27, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Donald Slater wrote: > > ?Sheree, > As Garth indicated, the most critical component is the graphics card? I purchased the Ride-S on Amazon, and bought this laptop at Best Buy > > Lenovo - Legion Y540 17.3" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - 1TB Solid State Drive - Black > Model: 81Q4008EUS > SKU: 6367808 > > > > > > > > > It is not the most high end gaming computer by any means, but it is doing everything that I have asked of it so far. > > We now have some quick reference docs on the Alice 3 Resources How To page on the Alice website that may be somewhat helpful > > http://www.alice.org/resources/alice-3-how-tos/ > > Hopefully some videos will appear soon. > > Let us know if you have any questions / concerns as you explore this functionality. > > All the best, > Don Slater > > Alice Project > > >> On Feb 27, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Sheree Wilder wrote: >> >> Hi, >> My school is looking into purchasing the oculus rift or rift s for next year as we will be furnishing a stem lab. We currently teach Alice 3 and hope to take advantage of the new VR integration feature compatible with Oculus. Any help regarding Oculus Rift vs Rift S and computer suggestions would be greatly appreciated. On the Oculus website it indicates that neither of these are available and the suggested computers are no longer supported??? I wondered if any of you are successfully using this feature and with what equipment, if so. >> Thank you, >> Sheree Wilder >> Robotics/STEM >> Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy >> 600 Savoy Road >> Youngsville, LA 70592 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tutorials always lag behind hardware development. > > Garth Flint > Technology Coordinator > Missoula Catholic Schools > (406)-531-7497 > > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:04 PM Sheree Wilder wrote: >> Hi, >> My school is looking into purchasing the oculus rift or rift s for next year as we will be furnishing a stem lab. We currently teach Alice 3 and hope to take advantage of the new VR integration feature compatible with Oculus. Any help regarding Oculus Rift vs Rift S and computer suggestions would be greatly appreciated. On the Oculus website it indicates that neither of these are available and the suggested computers are no longer supported??? I wondered if any of you are successfully using this feature and with what equipment, if so. >> Thank you, >> Sheree Wilder >> Robotics/STEM >> Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy >> 600 Savoy Road >> Youngsville, LA 70592 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> alice-teachers mailing list >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu >> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers > _______________________________________________ > alice-teachers mailing list > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: