 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series. We cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today and it is then posted to our website in our archives for you to watch at your convenience and I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our archive recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries similar to your whatever state library. So we provide services to all types of libraries in Nebraska and so we'll have topics on our show for all types of libraries. So there'll be something for everyone here. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. Something cool that libraries are doing. We bring in guest speakers sometimes to come and talk about things they're doing in your libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of various products and services. We may offer here through the library commission or things we think might be good for any libraries to have. We have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations for us and we bring guest speakers from all across the country. And today we have a mixture of that. Today it is the last Wednesday of the month so that means it's pretty sweet tech day. Pretty sweet tech that is our once a month, last Wednesday of the month session with Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Hi, Amanda. Hello. And she comes on with us once a week, once a month, not once a week, once a month to talk about techy related. So if you're a tech person in your library or interested in that kind of thing, this is definitely a show to pay attention to and beyond. She comes on other times too. But always the last Wednesday of the month she should be with her what be with here, be here with us. Oh my gosh. I need more coffee or less. I don't know. Always more. True. And today we're going to be talking to the Amanda about 3D meetings. Something that should be fun, interesting, weird, depending on your point of view. We'll see how that all works. I'll just hand over to Amanda to talk about that and introduce Chad and what he's got for us here today. So we're going to talk about Spatial. And so Spatial isn't specifically an app for librarians. It'd be awesome if it were. But Spatial is just a 3D meeting space that pretty much anyone in any industry can hop into. And you can put on a VR headset and explore a virtual meeting space, or you can use an augmented reality version of it to be able to project different objects into the world around you so that you can augment what you're already working with. I actually found out from Spatial from Chad from the Computers and Libraries Conference. So we brought him in to kind of help us learn more about it. And he knows way more about it than I do. He's been using it forever, or at least it feels like it. So Chad, would you want to introduce yourself? Sure. Yes. Hi. My name is Chad Marin. I'm sick today. I'm going to try not to cough too much into this microphone. And if I do, I'll cover it. So sorry about that in advance. Yes, I'm a librarian. I work at St. Petersburg College in Florida. And I also manage the Innovation Lab, which is a space that allows us to, well, I don't have a budget, so I write grants, but it allows us to bring in emerging technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality, 3D printing, robotics, that sort of thing to introduce to people so they can kind of see what's possible with technology. You know, a lot of people don't have access to this stuff, but now through the library system they actually do. So it's a really, it's a great job because I get to kind of experiment with all this stuff and then share it with people. And so it's a wonderful thing. So, yeah, let's go ahead and hop into the presentation, if you don't mind. So the agenda today is we're going to talk a little bit about XR and how it's changing the world, and it really is. And so XR, and I have another slide a minute, but it's virtual augmented and mixed realities. And then after a little bit of presenting this traditional way, we're going to actually hop into spatial. Now you don't have to have a VR headset. It's more immersive and engaging if you actually do, but just know that you don't have to, and their system is getting a lot better. So go ahead and go back to what XR is, if you don't mind. Yeah, I was going to go to the slide that had the compatible devices, but the videos trip me up. Oh, yeah, that'll happen. But yeah, we'll get back to that in a sec. But what I wanted to briefly discuss is just what XR is, and it really, it just stands for extended reality. And that X is a variable for anything, really. And I'm always trying to think what's it gonna, what's that X going to stand for in like 10 years, you know, with like volumetric video and all this crazy stuff happening. It's just going to be, it's going to be the metaverse. But we'll talk about that in a second, too. But right now, that's interesting. I was you've heard of VR and AR, I know those, but then when you know, the space talks about XR, I had no idea that there was this whole concept beyond those. Yeah. Yeah. So it's so right now it includes 360 degree imagery, 360 VR, which is sort of like, you know, Google Cardboard, that sort of thing. And then you've got true VR, which is where we're going to be later. And then augmented reality. Just think Pokemon Go for that. Mixed reality and spatial computing are very, very similar. Mixed reality is more than Microsoft terminology. And spatial computing is, is magic leap. They all do the same thing. So they're kind of mixing both worlds. So it's pretty cool. And then you got holograms. So anyway, all of that right now is the full spectrum of what's called immersive technology. So you're kind of the in the surrounded digital space. So yeah, can you hit the next slide? And did you want to talk a little bit about this, Amanda? Yeah, so one of the major questions I get is, okay, so cool augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, they're all really cool. But why do they actually matter? What are we doing with it? So they did like a massive survey through Statistica, and they've done one through Deloitte, and they've done one through basically all those major tech companies or consulting companies. And they pinpointed the major industries that are being impacted by AR, VR, XR, all the Rs. And so they found out that right now, healthcare and medical devices is like the number one industry that's being changed. And Chad, I know that you have an example that's coming out of healthcare later on. So you get to see a little glimpse into that. And so a lot of what's happening in Nebraska and kind of around the manufacturing area right now is in workforce development and training, and in manufacturing instruction. So you can hold up your little augmented reality device in front of all those complicated machines, and it'll pop up little digital labels that'll show you how to dismantle everything, how to work all the little complex pieces, and how everything fits together. It kind of improves the learning curve and just makes it way easier to use all this tech stuff and all these different systems and devices. So it's kind of adding that hands on experience with it more. Yeah. And of course, marketing advertising, you may have seen like the YouTube clip of I forget which company it was, but they projected like little spaceships all over London. So that whenever you look through a massive screen that was by a bus stop in London, you just it was basically like War of the Worlds. And it was like the coolest thing on the planet. So that's not terrifying at all. No, never. No. Spoiler, it wasn't real. But so these are some of the major industries that are being impacted by it. I put the link down below. This is actually a screenshot because I put this together in Canva. But I can put the link in later on the chat when Chad's going over the next slides. So this is just spoiler alert of the industries that are being impacted. And I'll mention too, while we're talking about the links and slides and whatnot, links to the slide will be available to everyone afterwards with the archive. So don't worry about trying to scribble down all these URLs and things will have them included in that as well for you to be able to get to anything you want to. Okay. And so I wanted to add just a little bit more. So education is a big part of it, I think. I mean, health care and all that is, but with libraries, we are educators, librarians or educators we have been since the beginning of time. I work in a joint use library. So I work with academics and the public, which I love. But I wanted just to highlight a couple reports that you might want to skim through. Very telling stuff in here. So the first one, I'm sure you all have heard of the horizon report. This is if you haven't checked it out, if you want to keep up with tech, but they've done two reports. One is learning in three dimensions. And then the other one is XR for teaching and learning. And so I think there's a huge potential for education in this XR space. Just think for one example is with with VR, like I can magnify a heart and walk into it and learn all about it that way. So if I do that, if I walk into a heart, I'm going to remember that experience, right? I can read about the functions of the heart. It's going to take me personally multiple times of reading that to really get it. Whereas if I'm in VR space or AR space, and I'm interacting with the heart and taking it apart and watching the blood flow, I'm going to remember that experience. So anyway, these are two really good reports that you might want to kind of skim through and see what else is going on in education with regards to XR. Next slide, please. And so if you want to dig deeper into what virtual reality actually is, I also have a little collection of curated resources that will help you kind of dig into that, see some examples. And so you can kind of, this is your little refresher about what it is, some little use cases, and just a variety of different things that you might want to try in the library with that. So if you want to explore and dig deeper and do things beyond spatial or including spatial, this is a good space to go. And just a concept I wanted to include is, and I get this question all the time, which is why I added this slide. So you've got three DOF and six DOF, so three degrees of freedom is my Google Cardboard. So you know, you're using your phone, and you're moving it around. So the space is kind of static, and you're moving, or you're moving the space with you as you look around. And you can see you've only got three degrees of freedom. Now, virtual reality is six degrees of freedom. So you can see you can actually walk into space, you can move back and forth, you can look all around, and that sort of thing. So I just wanted to bring those two concepts into play. Six DOF obviously is way more immersive and interactive. Nothing wrong with three degrees of freedom, nothing wrong with it at all, you still can do some amazing things and experience some amazing things that way. But just I wanted to pinpoint the two differences for you. Next slide, please. Well, and you can also see the evolution of this and Oculus Go to Oculus Quest, because Oculus Go was three degrees of freedom, then Quest shifted up to six degrees, and it was awesome. Totally awesome. Yeah. So sort of what we're doing today, this is I always show this too, because this was actually right before the pandemic. And you can see on the left and the right, this was in Tampa, Florida. And so a lot of people actually had VR headsets. And then that guy in the middle is me, and I'm in a hotel room in New York City. And first off, I'll say that the wireless was actually able to handle it, which was amazing, because we all know hotel Wi-Fi is not good usually. But what was cool is I was in my hotel room, presenting to this group in Tampa, but there was also people from all over the world in this 3D meeting space. So back then, Spatial was really early. They weren't really out yet. Kind of just a concept at the time. But dog head simulations had an application called Rumi, and very similar. But it was a cool way to present inside VR to kind of explain what VR is. So we had a good turnout. I wasn't obviously in that room, which made it even cooler, you know, because I felt like I was in that room with those people. Next slide, please. And so this is another example of the augmented reality that I popped in there. And so you're going to see kind of like the next evolution of augmented reality in the video that Chad's going to play. But this is also another version of how AR is impacting health industry and education. This is an education tool that is used, I believe it was in Finland. And it's basically labeling things so that you get like the visual demonstration and those little audio visual cues of what's going on inside the human body. So it's kind of another way to learn and explore an experience. And I'm going to skip over this slide because Chad already kind of went over it. This is the example of the mixed reality that we talked about. They're actually viewing this object through the HoloLens 2 headset. And this is actually what they're using in manufacturing and retail and in architecture and in interior design to be able to imagine and explore a space. So when people start learning this stuff in different symposiums like this and start gaining exposure to the equipment, then they're able to start exploring it, how it relates to them in their industry, and be able to just use it out in the wider world. Yeah, so here are the here are the videos. So the first what I'm going to show is this was a co location study. So this is a program called Anatomy X. And so I'm going to go ahead Oh, I'm clicking it, clicking it, clicking it. Yeah, if you don't mind hitting that one real quick, if it's going to run, there we go. So this is so me and one of my interns were this is one of our meeting rooms. And this is a three dimensional cadaver in our space. And as you can see, I'm looking I'm wearing a HoloLens. And he's wearing a magic leap, we're both looking at this object in the same space. And so as we look through this, you can see it's it's dissolving. I'm going to completely remember this experience now. And as you can see, it's kind of hard to see in the video. But as I'm looking at different parts of the body, you can see it labeling in real time. So so this was a co location experiment, just to see if we could have two different headsets on both looking at the same content, which is really cool. Now we're in the same room. All this is voice activated stuff too, by the way, so I could speak and tell it what to do and it would do it. What's really cool when you do this kind of stuff is when you're not in the same room with this with the person, you can do it globally. And it's just like you're both in that spot. And if you could play the other video, what was weird, I just put my hand up like that. And did you notice the video did the same thing? That was weird. Anyway, if you can hit the second one for me, this is a similar deal. I've got this is two students, one's wearing a magic leap and the other ones were in a hollow lens, same room, I'm using an iPad just so I can kind of see what's going on. And so this is what they're seeing. This is a large heart that they can actually look at. And they're both wearing different headsets. So this is a co location experiment too. So they're both studying for an anatomy and physiology exam. And they came back and told me they ace the test. They said it's way better than those models that they have to use, because they can make this as big as they need to make it. So that was pretty cool. And we all know that a lot of libraries, especially academic libraries, have to circulate 3d models, we do. And after a while that takes up a lot of space storage space. So now with something like this, you can have all of these digital cadavers and anatomy models stored digitally, where students can actually access it. So and it's not going to replace the 3d model. But this is a lot more interactive and students do get more out of it, at least my experience so far. So next slide, please. It started replaying again. Yeah. So this if you have what channel was that, I feel what it was 60 minutes plus is Oh, Paramount is like I got a free subscription just to watch this special. And they were talking about the metaverse. And it was interesting because if you think about it, you know, Web 1.0 was the internet, like here's your internet, have fun, right? And then libraries, especially remember the whole library 2.0 movement, when Web 2.0 came out. And so that was, you know, we started having mobile and this huge social connection now. You know, social media started to take off and we were sharing more and all this. So the next phase, I don't know if it's going to be called Web 3.0, but we're starting to see this metaverse now. So sort of like this ready player one concept, which is really not far away. You know, I think, I think we were all talking recently about Second Life, you know, Second Life was right around the Web 2.0 era. And a lot of library systems were in that space, it made sense because that's where people were. But this metaverse is really going to be everywhere. And we're starting to see cryptocurrencies and all this stuff in that space and people are buying artwork and and doing things all in this metaverse. And so I read an article briefly to which is interesting, I think for libraries is that eventually when we have, you know, glasses like this that do XR, which they're coming, they're they're actually here now, you're going to be able to do visual search sort of like Google Lens does. But you're going to be able to just look at things and then bring that into your your space because it's going to be digital. It's going to be kind of like a mirrored world, so to speak. So this whole concept of metaverse has been in sci fi for for a really long time, but now we're starting to see it come to life. It's you know, you'll you'll see a part of it when we go into spatial. That's kind of like how the metaverse is going to be. So pretty exciting stuff, I think. And that reminds me of this book I read. I found out about this book through the FabEx live conference. And it's called Designing Reality. So this book talks a lot about how this all of this XR VR industrial manufacturing third digital revolution, how it's going to be changing everything. So if you do want to start talking about this in your own library, just having a book to book group discussion and just start bringing the conversation into your community is just an awesome way to go. So I will copy this into the chat and give Chad his next slide. Thank you. So here's spatial AR. We're gonna so there's an AR version of spatial so you can and that was the first way I tested it. So I've been a beta tester for spatial for probably two years now. So in love with the company, the developers are great. But it was AR at first. So when we first started testing it, I could be in my office, I could still see my office. But then all of these holograms from all over the world would be in my space and we could interact with all this content. Next slide, please. And then there's a VR component too. At first, when we were talking with the developers, they had no planned to be in VR. And then the quest came out. And it's a $300 device versus thousands of dollars to get something going. So then they chose to bring it into VR too. And it was a smart move. So we'll get into the VR space here in a few minutes. Now if any of you want to test the AR version, you can do that too. Next slide, please. So here's just a couple images. So in the upper left hand corner is Aaron. And I used to work with him. He was the project developer for a while. And that's my office and we're meeting and he actually looks just like that by the way. It was weird because Aaron and I met in spatial exclusively for probably a year and a half. And then we actually finally met in Zoom one day. He lives in San Francisco, across the country. And then when we finally met through Zoom, it was just odd. It's like we've known each other forever because we looked the same in VR or in this case, AR. And a little side note is what's interesting is when he walked by me in AR space, I actually moved out of his way thinking he was in the room with me. It's how realistic it is. The lower left image shows that you can now interact with this content. So if Amanda and I and Chris and I are all in VR and you have your phone, you can interact with the content, the 3D content with your phone. Or you can do it in the browser as well. The picture on the right is just showing you that all these holograms are meeting via different headsets. So all those avatars. That was the question we had. Yeah, as everybody has to be using the same product, but there's no, no, not at all. So we'll skip over that video, but there is a video there too that kind of shows when it first kind of came out and they were given at the proof of concept. So it's changed a lot since then. Next slide, please. This was something I always like to point out because so spatial invited a bunch of early adopters and beta testers to come in and kind of hang out in one of their board rooms to meet with Joanna Stern and Christopher Mims from the Wall Street Journal. And on the left picture is obviously spatial, but you can see Joanne kind of sitting on the couch. It looks like. And so hanging out with her and talking her in spatial. It just felt like we kind of knew one another, you know, after a while you just you're interacting in 3D space. It's just it's very realistic. And then like a day or so later I saw her on CNBC talking in real life and I just felt like, hey, I know her, you know, it was just it was just so odd to see her the day before in spatial and then the next day seeing her on CNBC really kind of interesting. So I just wanted to throw that in there. Okay, next slide, please. And we kind of already alluded to this a little bit, but you can use spatial with a tablet or your desktop computer, your mobile app, you don't necessarily need to download spatial. You can actually go to their web based thing. The app is actually better though, but you can do it web based. And then really the most immersive way is to do it inside VR or to use an AR headset like a Magic Leap or HoloLens if you have one. Okay, next slide, please. And then there's some of the headsets that are compatible with spatial again, HoloLens, Valve Index and Reel. So those are the glasses that we're getting ready to see. They're still tethered, excuse me, they're still tethered to a like a hockey puck, kind of like the Magic Leap, but pretty soon it's going to be a Bluetooth connection, I think to your phone, because your phones are obviously very powerful, and it can run a lot of the AR stuff. I mean, if you think about it, your phone can do AR now, most phones can. So really the next step is to just kind of get the lens to your eyes instead of looking at your actual device. Next slide, please. And Unreal is in pre-release, so you won't actually be able to go to a store and buy it right now. And HoloLens too, you actually have to order through Microsoft. And the HoloLens is very expensive, by the way. So yeah. Okay, so what the plan is, so here's my quest. So in a few seconds, I'm going to hop in there, I'm going to turn it on now so I'm not waiting too long for it to load. So if you haven't created an account yet, all you got to do is go to spatial.io, you can do that on your phone, you can do it on your desktop, whatever, and then create an account. And then they're going to prompt you to create a 3D avatar. What it does is it scans your face, basically, and it does a 3D rendering of it. And it actually looks pretty realistic. It does. I did mine, I did one when we were doing the test for this, and beforehand, so we did a tech test of this before the show. And I will tell you this, I did multiple takes of my face because I didn't like how it works the first couple of times. It's kind of those taking a selfie and you're like, oh, wait, no. But you do have the option to do that. Yeah. And so for everyone who's logged into, I'll say I checked. And all of you except one, we're pre-registered for today. And I sent you an email last night, well, yesterday afternoon, reminding you that there was a link, the event page for this to get the same picture here that links to the spatial site. And then I also included the link specifically to the room that says right there that I love spatial room will be going into. I also just typed that into the chat as well for anyone who didn't get set up and wants to try right now to quickly get it enjoyed. We're not going to move this show into spatial, we're still broadcasting here through go to webinar. We're all going to stay here for the recording and keep it going. But you can, if you want to, like in a separate window on your computer, if you're doing that, or on your phone, if you're doing it that way, go into the also the spatial one as well. Perfect. By the way, if you do go in, like if you go into spatial.io, then you click on the iLab spatial room, you'll see in the upper right hand corner, there's an option to pair your headset if you decide to do VR. And what it's going to do, it's going to give you like six numbers. So when you go into spatial on your headset, you're going to type in those numbers, and then you're going to go right in. If you're doing it just on the in the browser or on your phone, that link to iLab spatial room should bring you right in. Then you'll see there's options to turn on your microphone or turn on your video. If you are using your phone or a computer, I'm going to have like a webcam view of your video inside spatial. It's also be able to see you. And then also once you've got everything going, excuse me, sorry about that, you'll see when you kind of, if you're in VR, you kind of look down, these options pop up, you can search, you can add sticky notes, upload images and that sort of thing. And so you can do that same stuff. Number seven, in the browser and on mobile. So I think what the plan is, I'm going to go ahead and turn my video off. Right, we can't use our cameras and go to webinar and you learned that. So I am going to fire up my headset, and I'm going to log into, into spatial. And so you'll see me still in, in go to webinar or and or I guess, if you're using it on the browser or however you decide to get in. So I will see you soon inside spatial. Alright, I'm going to turn off my camera. So because I've got mine going here. But Amanda, on your screen, you're going to switch to sharing the spatial desktop view or how are you is And I was actually going to ask if you could share that on yours because it did not yet. Yep, hang on a sec, because I've got my headset here and it looks way cooler to have two people in via headset. Alright, hold on just a second here. I am going to change presenter to me. There we go. All right, we're milking here. All right. So everyone, you should see this is the and I'm going to wait for Chad to get in there. And I think I see some people starting to pop in here. And I'm going to put my, there's a picture I took of myself to be the face of my, what looks weird, my zoom in too far down to that. And I'm actually going to verify that we can still hear Chad's audio through this headset before I get into spatial through my headset. Otherwise, this will be a very quiet presentation. So let's make sure that his audio is going through here. Well, yes, and there's pink here. Yes, go ahead and try again. Hello, can you hear me? Are you waiting for me? All right, we do have hang on a second. We do have some feedback that coming through from what just just so what we're trying to get into the problem here. So we got a little bit of a problem is getting a 3D film to be moving inside the space because it's really hard to see that film. We got a few of his he calls them in particular, but they don't look like they really need to be done that way. So when you look at like one of the decisions you make, when you look at that actual space, it's really not a classic. So this is just our room. You can see if we all walk in here, you can see there's another one just prints here. Kind of looks pretty, but it's moving. Really kind of cool, I think. Over here, it's a little bit more specific to work. So you can see you can do a lot of places. I can create a little more room in here and then it would look more like an office, but I kind of prefer being in this space. You can do something like this. You can do some grid ruling in here. And you can see one one is now like a small as I want, like a large, right? So you gotta do that. You can also bring in your own re-re-content. So I'm going to talk about maybe doing a master stage showcase here, where, you know, we're sort of like we're laying them down now, but that way I'm going to be doing a million and one content like this. Here's our 3D. I'm going to bring this back over here into the middle. So here we go. So you've got your 3D model here, right? And if you want to make these animated, so eventually you can have your animated objects in here too. So this, this would be moving. So again, yeah, you can move this. I know it's going to be great. So like I mentioned, how we brought in our 3D model on our museum. It's sort of like this, right? This is it. You just kind of, you give it a theory of what it's like that it needs, or the core of it needs. You basically set it out on the core and you get it perfect. And then you set it out in your environment and you know what, you're going to learn how to make sure you can return to what you want to do. Also, let's move this down the way. So I mentioned the sphere of this. So another example of what you do with education, and I had the student reach out to me, and it's a little sphere here. And she wanted to do something a little bit more interesting for her astronomy class. And I said, well, what are you doing to research on? And she was doing it on one of the galaxies. And I said, okay, well, so I went out and found on the 360 image, actually, I take it back. It wasn't 360, it was a regular linear image of, let me show you a little bit of it. And I did it at 360. And then you, there's a data file, and there's a texture file, and then the actual image, and you put that all together into a GLB file, right? And I think even the search number may be interested. And what's cool is when you do that, you create a star box, which is what this is, it's a little sphere. And so what we're going to do is look at it this way, but then we took it and expanded it to this point, where we were all inside it. And so now, this is actually, like, this is where you do this thing, you do it in a big, big room. This is a little blurry here today. Anyway, so this was an LA planetarium. So we created a planetarium, and we put it in a room that doesn't have much fluidity, so we can actually look around. And this way, she was able to recall what she was looking at, in employee, the different parts of the galaxy. Anyway, it was a really cool way for her to show off part of her system of regurgitation paper. So instead of being in front of the cloud, she got to build our VR, and she actually recorded it too. So you can do a lot of stuff with this. And so there's there. This is the presentation we're going to have in a little bit here today. So you can bring in that and make it as big as you need to make it. And it looks pretty good. So you can go through my presentation if I want. And it's just like we were just looking at. So I can, in theory, he's present in here. And she does that for a bit, because what other place will learn about VR than actually in VR? So this is a really cool way to kind of bring that in. Now, so let's see that in VR. If you look at that, and again, you can use it on desktop, you can also do it in the front of the cloud. You'll see a little blue dot. If you select that, you'll see that option of use. You've got you can just draw on the note if you want. Or you can select the microphone and do voice activated notes if you want. So if you don't want to draw or whatever you can do that. And then you can take that note and put it on the wall here if you want, right? So you have like a community wall that you can have all kinds of stuff to share if you need to. You can also, if you look down and you click on content, there's ways to search for things. You can search on the web. You can open up a browser. You can do a share screen. So if you're out on the web, on the browser, you can share your screen and you would see what you're actually looking at on your screen. It also integrates Google Drive integrates Microsoft 365 slacked Sigma and just recently NFTs. So there's a big push and a level metaverse thing we talked about earlier. You can now purchase things through like NFTs through like cryptocurrencies and that kind of thing, Ethereum and all that light inside here. So they're doing a lot of galleries. You will have to go to your desktop to go to like spatial IO slash integrations and then you can integrate all that. What's cool is like if I go into Drive, for example, I can click on Drive and they don't have a good search function yet. But if I go in and I want to kind of browse through and so I can now click on this and it'll take a second. But now you can see I've just made that as big as I need to make it and then get play. It might take a second because I actually went pretty quick. So there's my little video. Cool. I can see people actually moving around and bringing some stuff in. That's awesome. I will say they just made a new update. So if you have a, I forget what iPhone it is, but the iPhone that has the LiDAR scan capabilities on it, you can now use the app and do a LiDAR scan of your room, for example, or a piece of furniture or whatever it is. The IOS LiDAR scanner is pretty awesome. And then you can scan it and whatever you want, you can then bring it in here. It looks very realistic. So if you have a new iPhone, I don't, my daughter does. So I will be borrowing that from her soon. But that's just, it's just the tip of the iceberg, I think at this point. I haven't seen it yet, but they added the new function for if you're searching for images on your phone, they added 3D images too. So if you search for a logo for and there's a little 3D logo for that you can pop in. Do you have that handy? Are you able to do that? Yeah, probably now. So now what I'm hoping is now that they're doing 3D images, I keep asking them about 3D video. So if you guys like over here, I'll show you. So this is, I did a video of me looking at this 3D film in VR, which is over here. Now, obviously, it's not 3D. There are applications that will do it in 3D. Big screen, for example, will play 3D films. And it's amazing, actually, I don't know if you've tried it yet or not, but it's amazing. And also, how what's the other one called? There's another app that I've been using to that will display 3D film in VR. And it looks pretty good, but I want it to all be in one space. So again, that video on the back wall over here is a recording I did of his video is 3D film inside VR. So hopefully we'll get that figured out. A little side note, though, we weren't the museum was not able to get a 3D projector or a 3D television. There was a software out there that took his stereoscopic video and puts it into an Anaglyph. So now we're able to just use any display for 3D film, except for what's in here. So hopefully that'll be figured out soon. So yeah, so it just kind of just spatial, I think kind of takes, you know, the whole virtual meeting to a whole new level. You know, zoom after a while gets kind of you have like zoom fatigue, I guess, you know, everything's just two dimensional. But what's cool now is, you know, you can actually be in a space like this and you can bring in 3D content or some design that you're working on that you want to all look at together. So yeah, tons of possibilities in here. Good. And explore somewhere in this room, I've added a field of folder source. Oh, I see him. There they are. Oops, my son would love this. And then again, yeah, you can make it as big as you want. So yeah, I think there's a lot of possibilities in this space. You can bring audio in here, by the way, this has audio. Let me see if I can get a little closer to it. By the way, this is the artist I'm working with is Louis Markoia. Let me turn, let me pause that. The artist I'm working with is Louis Markoia. What's really cool is when I first met with him, I had no idea he was a protege of sovereignty. So it's been really an honor working with this guy. And it's also cool because he just gives me access to all his artwork and lets me bring it in here and kind of experiment with it. Not all of it's going to be moving like this. It's just static. Hey, Jason, I see you over there. How are you doing? Hey, Chad. How's it going? Hey, Jason. It is moving along. I'm glad you came in. Hey, Jason. This is Christa. So we're just going to hang out in here showing everybody what can be done in this space. So does anybody have any questions or comments? I've been talking too much, especially with my cold. Oh, you sound fine. Hey, Jason. This is Christa. Hey, Christa. Hi. How are you doing? We're exploring Spatial for the first time on my Encompass Live show today. So say hi to everybody. I saw your tweet. That's why I'm here. Oh, cool. Awesome. And just so you guys know, they have speech captioning now. That's not part of the free version, which I think is really cool because then you can, I think they're working on that multi-language support too, which would be pretty cool. That was a question we did have. That was a question we had. What is the cost that we're talking about here with using this? I did not pay anything to get in here. Those of you joining us didn't either, obviously. Yeah, they have a couple of different tiers. They have the free tier, which you can do pretty much most anything you'd need to do, really. And then they have an Enterprise tier, which it's got single sign-on and all that stuff. I'll be honest with you, I haven't had to knock on the way out to sign in in quite a while. And it's attached to my school account, so I just log into my school and I'm already seamlessly logged into this. Yeah, I noticed that when I came in here, it already had me logged in. Yeah, I didn't have to re-log in. So really the cost would be if you're getting an actual headset if you wanted that. Yeah, yeah. And it is, I mean, I will say I've been in meetings in this space, excuse me, in this space for an hour at a time. And I never get to, it depends on what the meeting is about, to be honest, but it never gets old. It's just a different way to interact and I can hand things to people. We can do high fives. There's a little bit of haptic thing they have going on now. That's pretty responsive. And this is just the beginning. I can see just the point of potential or something like that. And that is something we have, Amanda, we are, sorry, go ahead, Amanda. If you're looking for kind of a beginner way to introduce your community to spatial pool players also, I'd put together like a mini lesson plan with like challenges that you can ask people to do, like add the bulbous or in the corner or add a picture on the wall. And just kind of give people idea of what it can do and then start to contextualize it in how they're going to use it. If you're in a public library, you'll have people from small businesses that are coming in. You'll have people that are going to a local school. You'll just have people from all walks of life. You want to use it in a variety of different ways. And that's true of academic libraries and pretty much any library on the planet. People are going to look at this and say, I don't know what I can do with that. And once we have a little setting stone of just ways that they can do it and start getting people together, people can do some awesome stuff. Yeah. And like I said, good point for sure. And the fact that I'm working with this guy, Rick, who has got a three, I mean, did he design, he made a common copy basically of our museum and brought it in here. And then we're basically, we're walking around our museum. Like we're actually there, which is amazing. So with education, you can do a lot. So we could create like a surgery room if we wanted to or a machine shop. So for education, we can then, be in different rooms, different classrooms. So that's, I know I've got one provost right now that's very interested in that concept. And they're looking at, maybe using CARES Act funding for it, which would be really kind of cool. So we'll see what the future brings with that. And so, Amanda, for as far as the virtual headsets, I know you have tech kits of those. Are they being lent out yet? I do. They're actually all already out. Oh, all right. Nice. I'm going to check one out when the next one comes in. If you put in a request, then I can send that to you when it's available. Yep, through our, I have the quest headset. I'm hoping to start doing it to the quest too, which is the new one, but fingers crossed, I will tell. But so far, I've been up from the quest headset to the quest headset. They are. And if you do have the old go headset, just as a heads up, go is no longer going to be supported. As well as the shift is completely over to the quest. So I do have some goals that are just kind of floating around, but unfortunately, they don't really do much anymore. No. I will say the quest is pretty slick. There we go. I was just showing on the screen to everybody. So, you know, where we have our tech kits available, the Encompassly, or the library commission website. If you saw that, you can just go to our website, search tech kits, and there's a bunch of things that I'm going to put together. You can bring that in. There is actually a 3D model that exists as a merge of people already. So if you want to explore augmented reality, the Encompassly has its own SVK. So you can start using that as kind of a launching pad for augmented reality as well. And there's also the developers kit for augmented reality that goes through Google. They have a quick start guide. So you can start playing around with it, start designing your own environment and find out what it's like to be a real augmented reality developer. And there's also resources on the high tech section that will show you how to get started from the inner level and also some options for intermediate to advanced. So if you want to play around with this, then start creating your own 3D object and start pulling them into different environments, which is kind of an awesome way to get started. 3D standards are still kind of hit or miss, but I still have to find a really good one. Yeah, I use a structure sensor, which is pretty decent, but I tell you the new iOS, or the new iPhones have LiDAR built in. So that's pretty sophisticated scanning just on your phone. Yeah. Yeah, I'm an Android user too. My daughters all use iPhone now. So that's good. Hey, let me borrow your phone, please. So am I sharing my screen that you guys can see in there? Yeah. I can make it really large if you want. And they did, by the way, they did do an update where when you make something really large like I am now, the text looks really good. Like for a while I got very blurry, but I mean, you can see it now, it looks really good, I think. Yeah, we can see what you're doing now. Yeah. Because what I want to do is I want to go and see how do I share? All right, I'm going to do this again, because now share. And I'm going to do, there we go. There. Now I can see what was me. I had it all on one monitor and all I could do was all I could see was my browser and I'm like, no, I want to see what it looks like in spatial. So there it is. Yeah, that looks cool. Yeah. Q-Robot is actually the easiest robot in there to replicate using Tinkercat or Autocat, because it's basically all just spheres. Oh, cool. I've been debating on if I'm going to, you know, put one of my digital prints up as an NFT and see if I can make like eight million dollars yourself. That'd be kind of cool, right? And then you can fund everything you want. Then I can fund everything. But yeah, people are doing it. And then people may, that's crazy, you know, and like I said, that's why spatial integrates there and a fee thing in here now where you can actually go into a gallery and, you know, I wonder, I don't know if we all have the same spaces, but there's a couple other art galleries. You guys, now that you have accounts, you might want to see, but there's some other out. So if you actually go in and hit leave, I'm not going to do it now, but hit leave. It'll show you all the other rooms you've got access to. You'll be amazed at some of the, some of the work people are doing. Especially with, so there's like public locations. People can just go to better out there. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, this is just the beginning. Yes, they do. Yeah. So if you want, I can try something. I'll show you just a quick thing. So if I wanted to, I could go in here to, whoops, that's not the thing I wanted to do. I can go in here. I can go in and change my environment. Actually, I wonder, let's try something real quick. This is, I'm just going to try and see if we can do it. So. Don't. Environment. Okay. Okay. It's going to be weird. Yeah. This is obviously very weird, but this is the museum. This is the deal I was talking about. So we did a 3D rendering of this. This is our first one. This is a test. Obviously all the artwork is not what it's supposed to be. But this is a rendering of our museum. Now we're going to add more texture to it. But this is what it looks like. You can actually create a 3D model. And then of any space space. If you actually go over where I am, you can come out. If you look right out this way. Oh, no, this is the wrong model. Nevermind. He actually added the name of the museum over here. So. And then by the way, we can all do a selfie too. You know, they have an option where we can do a selfie stick. And what's cool, you can hold it up. And if you want, you can, you can flip it somehow. If I were going to do that. Here we go. Flip. And so now we can all be in there and do. See, Christy, if you look over this way, you'll see we get to be in the image together. You guys see that? Oh, interesting. Okay. So you can add and then they do a lot with the selfies and stuff in here. It's kind of fun. Yep. Here they are. Hey. They were wrong. It's kind of weird. I look weird right now, especially when I'm talking, my teeth look really light. Yeah. It is. It is. It's cool and it's weird at the same time. Yeah. It's definitely weird. It's definitely weird. And just imagine when we get to become even more realistic looking. And eye tracking seems to be working better now too. I'm going to go back. This is a weird room. It's obviously this is not the right one, but you get the idea of what you can do. If you want to experiment with building your own room, basically doing a 3D rendering of a building, usually 60 of the three heaviest version that you don't have to pay for. I'm going to go to the same functionality as the page. The job done. Yeah. That's good. Good information. So now we're outside. This is pretty nice. Aurora Borealis. We're actually standing in the lake. Yeah. I can see the campfire with all our artwork and stuff over there. So if you're in it, so the thing is if you're in a space and you actually add artwork and add all your documents and all that stuff, when you go into a different environment, it might be completely not what you think it should be. So I'm just going to jump in here and it's going to jump in your letter. It is a little after 11 o'clock, central time. Show usually goes from 10 to 11. But if anybody has any questions or comments or anything you want to ask of Chad or Amanda, go ahead and type them in. We won't wrap up until you have your questions answered and you get to everything they want to show us. I just want to let people know that, yes, officially, it says our show is 10 to 11, but we go as long as it takes to get through everything. So if you have any questions, comments, things you want to know, go ahead and type it in. And I don't know, Chad and Amanda, if you, what you want to be finishing up things in here or did you have slides you wanted to finish showing? Probably finish it up in here. So all this is kind of missed the grass from before. So. No, there hasn't been anything else. No. I don't know. Chad, are you still here? Yeah, he's in the... Oh, wait. There we go. Can you guys hear me now? Yep. You had to get yourself, yeah. So that's pretty cool. For some reason we ended when we switched environments, we actually, we're like out in the middle of the water now. It's kind of wild. Yes. I haven't seen the web-based version in a while. It looks pretty cool still. It does. It's got some weird things. Sometimes when I first logged in, I could turn myself around, but now I kind of can't. I'm not sure exactly about all of the controls. Yeah, it takes a little while to get used to it. Like I said, I haven't played too much with the web-based version of it. And if you actually turn around in your physical environment, the phone should track you too. Oh, well, I'm on my desktop. Yeah, the phone does some pretty good stuff too. And with the phone, by the way, you can switch it to augmented reality. And then you can actually be in your room, in your space still. Yeah. All right. I'm going to pop out of this. Actually, since it looks like, yeah, you're not in here anymore. So why don't we switch back to Amanda and finish up with the slides? Yep. Yeah, that'll work. Okay. Hold on a sec. I am going to make you presenter again. So you should be able to show your screen again. There we go. Looks good. And I forgot to put my contact slide in here. I actually forgot to do that too. Yeah. You can add it. Yeah. Since it looks like it can be added to the presentation and the link we give everyone, it'll have everything they need. Perfect. Well, keep in touch. This was fun. It worked out pretty well, I think. I will put my email in the chat for go to meeting for anyone who is here right now. But if you are accessing the recording after this, it should be in the slide deck if you access that. And I just put my email in now. I don't know if chat, if you want to do the same. Yeah, for some reason I can't get back to the chat thing for some reason. Oh, maybe I can copy and paste yours because I have your... Yeah, if you don't mind. Yeah, I can't get... Oh, and here it is. Here it is. It came back. So my email is... I'll type it in. There you go. Yeah, definitely keep in touch. And I'll put my contact slide in real quick before it, before you go uploading it. Yeah, perfect. Does anybody have any questions or anything else they want to ask? Go ahead and get it typed in before you wrap things up. Do you guys have more slides you want to get through to wrap up talking about spatial and what we're doing today? No, I don't think so. I think it's just important to get in there. And if you're interested in this kind of thing, just to get in and explore. And if you want to just meet in there some time and talk about the possibilities, you got my email, get a hold of me. I'd love to meet you in there some other time if you want. Yeah, just let me know. And I'd be happy to get in there with you. And if you want to check out a VR headset to gain access to Spatial in the first place, I will put in a link again to request a kit if you want to try it out. That's great. That's a great service. And I put that in the link. Just click request kit and you're good to go. Excuse me. And you can also check out the merge cube for augmented reality. And good times were had by all. Yeah, merge cubes are fun. Aren't they? All right, I am going to... Let's see, what do I got going here? I've got a million screens up. Okay. I am going to pull presenter control back to my screen again. So, there we go. So, yes, this is our Encompass... No, our library commission website. And I'll see it at Nebraska.gov. And we shared the link to you, but also if you go on our search and type in tech... Oh, you guys spell it, right? Tech kids. It's our first item here underneath the ones that first come up. So, you can go to that main page and where you can request any of these. This is the Nebraska libraries, of course. Robots. That's great. And we want to get more of these. We'll see. These are going out now and we're working on potentially expanding this in some way. Oh, and there's library and preparation guide. So, if you're new to it, you can get started with it. Yeah. So, we're going to have some of these robots and figure it out. I mean, this is a great job of putting together everything you might need, lesson plans, specifics for the library and for staff. Great work on all that. I love that. Thank you. You've been very popular. I mean, yeah. We didn't have a little... It was bad timing. Got these things first set up. It was like right before the world ended. Yeah. And then of course, things could not be lent out to anyone. And then started with the ones that were not the virtual reality because those are a little more, you know, on your face. But now, yeah, things can go out. People keep, you know, up to them. Yeah. So, definitely look into those tech kits. And this is where I logged in to the spatial when I went to it. Had at least, you already logged in. That's a spatial website. So, I think we will wrap it up today. Then it just looks like nobody had any desperate questions they need added right now. That's fine. You've got emails in there and they will be on the slides that we will have available as well. Amanda, do you want to share this link to the slides too? You can put that in the chat for us. Then I'll have that for later. Or do you want to wait? I'm going to double check the sharing on it because right now it's shared for editing, I think. If I email the link to me later, not a problem. It will be available with the recording for everyone. So, that will officially wrap it up for today's show. I will go to our Encompass Live main page here where you've got our upcoming shows here, but I said I was going to show you at the very bottom. It's linked to our archive shows. Most recent one is the top of the page. This is one from last week with big bugs where they had a bunch of different resources, but we had a link to recording and a link to presentation. We'll have the same thing here for today's show. It should be available and done by the end of the day tomorrow as long as GoToWebinar and YouTube cooperate with me. Everyone who attended today and registered for today's show will get an email from me at GoToWatch. We'll also post it out to our various social media and other locations out there. We do have a Facebook page for Encompass Live. Here are links to it. This is our page. If you like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. You get notifications. Here's a reminder to log in to today's show. We also posted to other social media, as Jason Griffey mentioned earlier. He saw our tweet and popped in to join us. We always use the hashtag for Encompass Live. 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We've got the recordings for those, so she's got this four-part series that she's doing on teaching technology in the library, so definitely sign up for those if you want to. We've got our other regular shows interspersed amongst that, and next week we're going to be talking about history. History Nebraska has some new resources, a new search feature on their website. Jill Dahlberg and Lindsay Hill Gardner from History Nebraska will be with us to talk about taking history online next week. If you're interested in history of Nebraska and what resources they have available online now for you, definitely sign up for or any of our other future shows. Thank you everybody for being here with us this morning. Thank you Amanda for being here again. Thank you Chad for being with us. Hope you feel better soon. Appreciate it. See you time. We'll see you all in our next episode of Encompass Live. Bye bye. Thank you. Take care guys. Bye bye.