 Hi everybody, Anthony Chao, I'm the Director of the School of Information here at San Jose State. We are so delighted to kind of bring you this mixed reality tour. Alfredo Alcantara is actually wearing a device and Alfredo is going to say hi in a second. This gentleman here, you want to introduce yourself. Hey folks, I'm Martin Flores. I am a graduate of False Minds My Dream with my masters in library and degree sciences. Martin, you're going to spend a day with Martin because Martin is going to show by this device, a wearable device called the whole lens to his experience, both I'm going to give him a tour, personal tour and along with all of you. And then Martin's also going to go to the reception where he will show you all of the fun that we're having at the reception. And then most importantly, Martin is going to take you to his actual commencement. So you're going to see the experience commencement from Martin's first hand view. So Martin, we really appreciate you doing this. Hi everybody, I'm Dr. Dan Nathan Roberts. I'm an associate professor here and I'm working in the iSchool. Love it. I was also in the engineering school. I teach usability, human factors and user experience. And basically, both Dan and Alfredo who again you'll say you'll see in just a second are helping me with the library technology integration lab where we use this kind of technology and then teach how to use that technology. So without further ado, we'll put it on Martin, right? Actually, I'll hold on to it and then I'll let you, Dan and Marvin, get to have that have that personal tour. So I'll be your cinematographer today. All right. So let's start with so as Alfredo showed you the four floor elevators, the iSchool's physical present is much smaller than it used to be. And you want to turn this way Alfredo. So yeah, so this is where our suite starts. So basically, if you look on the right side, this is where all our staff are. And then if we look down the left corridor there, Alfredo, this is where also some of our supplies, our plier room, faculty and staff. And don't keep going. So look down this way again, more faculty and staff. So as you can imagine, or as you would imagine, there are less faculty now located in our building. So our faculty are spread across the entire United States, but we still have a few. And Dan here is actually going to be starting our first face to face program in a while, starting fall 2025. That's right. Yeah, it'll be a hybrid bachelor's in information science and data analytics. So all right. So here's again, continuing down our hall. So for you students that are watching, we always have poster sessions at our big conferences. So at the American Library Association having San Diego, if you do a poster session, your posters will end up on the wall. We change that every semester. So again, if you're interested in becoming a celebrity, do submit a poster for our ALA conference and your poster will end up on the wall for a semester. So this is a hall of wisdom. So here's where the magic happens. So we'll start with, I don't know if they can see the fan. They can see the okay. So basically this is a hologram fan. So what we can do is the fan is spinning so quickly, it can produce a hologram, a visual hologram. And in this case, you can see the school of information hologram. So just like those of you that are viewing the use of technology and the ability to organize and deliver information, experience information is just across the board. It's a really exciting time. And again, this is an attention gather. So if you have a table or you're doing outreach or you're doing an event or we're thinking of using it for an art show as well, the bottom line is this is just another way to experience information. So in fact, we're planning on using this at a special art show featuring Ukraine children's artwork. And we're going to have some kind of display like this as part of the actual physical display. So again, an example of kind of mixing it together. This is our Little Free Library. So I'm actually vice president and on the board of Little Free Library. And so we have a strong relationship. We're also the sponsor of the Little Free Library mobile app. And Little Free Library, book sharing boxes are really aligned to libraries and our mission as a school. Ultimately, what we do is we put our favorite books into this so that other people could take them for free. Right. And so it's really a way of kind of sharing what you like. Maybe in many academic journals in here with the bottom line, sharing what you're offering. This just grew up in kind of communities worldwide, but more and more now libraries are starting to use it as an outreach opportunity. Where basically you can drop this into any neighborhood, right? It's loaded up with books, and those books start to go to the homes. So very exciting. All right. So let's look on the back end of the fan here. So the reason I want to show this to you is because we have a wireless charging station. So it's called the Pau Key. Most of these now are solar, but the bottom line is there are no wires, right? So this is battery charged. I guess down the one light it's going to turn off soon. But the bottom line is these kind of devices free you up that you can put technology anywhere you want. Right. And so again, especially with solar, you know, it's pretty much endless. All right. So probably the most important part of the high school is the coffee. So here's the coffee. And so we've got the curing. And then we have a Mr. Coffee with water. And probably get a close up here, Afredo, of the mail room and the fact that there are no prints, anything being delivered. So if you ever wonder how whether it's digital or print, it's digital. And again, from a from a environmental friendly standpoint, right, it's great. I mean, we've got a copier here, but we hardly ever use it. By the way, here's what we have is two of these for once charging, once running, that one goes out. So here's our here is our exception area. And if you were here with us, you would get some swag. But at some point, I'm sure you'll come to one of our events, definitely come to our conferences. We have some we pride ourselves in having some of the best way. All right. And then finally, let's see what else. So we have our faculty conference room. And come in here, Afredo. So one of the things that we've done with our conference rooms is again, you'll notice no wire. So here is the station, basically you could bring your tablet or your laptop, and you could pop it in here, we're going to give you a wireless mouse, a wireless keyboard, and then you could throw your screen onto this, onto the TV. Right. And so again, flexibility is important. And you know, less, less wires is important. I don't know if anyone's used a whiteboard in years. Here's the wall of directors. So maybe you can get a close up of that. Let me get the light on here. So this is all the directors. And of course, it's important to kind of take a look back at your history. So Dr. Haycock is the one that started the online program in 2009. Right. So Dr. Haycock started 2009. Dr. Hirsch, under her fearless leadership for 10 years, Dr. Main was interim while they were searching, and I was fortunate enough to be selected. And so this is kind of the modern day history right here. Obviously a lot of great leaders. All right. And then here's my office. I don't need to spend a lot of time in here, Afredo. One of the other students that I did some decorations, which is true, this is kind of not me. I'm pretty smart and unintended. And this is where I have above to show my poor attempted exercise. So I do have a standup desk and I do a lot of conference meetings here. I wanted to show this because again, we have a TV and we also have a physical device as well. And the reason why that's important is because we have both physical and also online meetings is the owl. So any of you who are not familiar with the owl, the owl is this amazing device that basically is all in one webcam 360 degrees. So I could actually put it in the middle of the table and it actually can do video of anyone around the table. But it's also a speaker and a microphone. Right. So this right here solves all the problems of hybrid meetings, which is why I love them. So so this is called the owl. So all right. So that's pretty much the tour of our office spaces. Now let's go and look at our Library of Technology in Greece. All right. So Alfredo, you want to take us down to go to the Library of Technology in Greece? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, actually come up. I'll come back here. I want to introduce you to one of our other faculty members. Dr. Yuli goes there. Yuli, this is where live streaming is. Hello, everyone. And congratulations to those of you who graduated today. It's a wonderful day. I'm so excited to be here and see my colleagues and see the space and see our school is really wonderful. And I teach core class information communities. Some of you might have had me and I also teach indigenous cultural institutions and libraries. And if you graduate in, good luck to everyone. And please, please, please keep in touch. Shall we say please keep in touch because our community is growing and networking and just our family is growing. That's what I'm trying to say. Good luck and congrats. Yes. And Yuli is an international leader in indigenous culture and studies. And Yuli and I just talked about doing work at the UN, right, which she were planning for April. So stay tuned for that. Again, the high school is already international where we're going even further, right? So yeah. So hopefully many of you might be part of that initiative right once we get it off the ground. Yes. Yeah, hopefully. All right. So let's go to the Library of Technology and Integration Lab. Marvin, this is the first for you too, right? This is the first time I truly, truly adore it. We're having constant discussions at the University about the physical space. Yeah, we actually still do. Mostly, virtually, we're smoking a little. So what I was going to say is part of which you'll notice is that we have less physical space. Even though we're one of the largest schools of information and the largest masters of information science in the country. And the reason why I wanted to bring that up is because there's a constant conversation about how much physical space and also where your staff and faculty can work. So we're actually having quite a few arguments with the university system. Where can our staff work from? Where can our faculty work from? But the question we have that for ourselves is that we can do things virtually. We really need to have to, we really have to be here. I face commute and sorry if there's a university that, you know, not, not having to commute to work. I mean, it saves you like an hour a day, easy, right? Every second of the day. So not to mention the cost of it. All right. So we have some of our technology here and by chance we have a frame, you know, all like dressed up, clean shape. This is our hologram device called the spectra. And we're really, we really like hologram. So this has got the Star Wars technology, right? And then it really is getting to that point where now we can video and 360 degrees. So, you know, Frado's always looking at you. But the mission of library technology creation line is to experiment with technology, also leverage the healthy budget that we have as a university to buy technology that most libraries can afford, and to do some research and development, experiment with them, and then basically teach other libraries how to use them, and also how to offer programming with them. So this is the Moxie. So the Moxie is a social support robot. And so the Moxie actually imprints like a duckling on the first person that turns her on. And so we have not turned her on yet. This is just out of the box. And we are going to probably loan her to someone that has a child to kind of do a dry run to see how that relationship unfolds. But our thinking is that if it works out well, we might be able to then try it out at a library, right? Where we can basically have it keep turning on and print with the child for three weeks or whatever, and then come back and wipe it and start all over again. But it's, you know, it's a robot that's designed to develop relationships and build confidence in children. So we have the devices here. We have the MetaFest 2, which is virtual reality. And you'll see a lot of our virtual reality holdings on our library technology creation website. This is already old, even though it's only two years old. And this is called virtual reality because when you put it on, you really can't see anything else but what's in the headset. So that's the MetaFest 2. MetaFest 3 cut off the press. As you can see now, you can see reality, right? So now, whereas the version 2 was what we call virtual reality, which is completely immersed, the MetaFest 3 is now what we call mixed reality, which is both virtual reality and mixed reality, which basically means I can see you. I can, you know, see reality while also having a virtual reality. You know, the versatility of this is very exciting. Emerging it is very exciting. So another type of technology that we're working on is called living pop-ups. And so like a device like this, as well as with your own phone, we could put hotspots kind of like Pokemon Go, where basically I or the president or whatever can pop up in hotspots with your phone, right? And so again, when you think about curation and educating people on historical artifacts, I mean, the sky's the limit in terms of what you can do, right? So you now just don't have to look at it. You don't have to read it. You can actually hear it from the person, the artist, whatever, right? So it's just, this is amazing. How does this compare to the whole lens which we're using now, compared to the MetaFest 3? Yeah, yeah. So the whole lens to my Microsoft is, you know, kind of, I think probably the most famous mixed reality device. So you can see these are clear lenses and Marvin's going to be working these again for graduation. So once you lift those up, you know, you're in reality and when you drop them down, now you have a digital overlay, right? So you're going to be able to see, he's going to be able to see, but he also is going to have the internet with him and also the ability to live stream the whole thing through his perspective. So really, this is, I don't know if they borrowed from each other, but this MetaFest 3 is probably with, there's a more advanced version of the whole lens too, right? So I guess it would be the best way. This is just a low-end robot. We don't have our advanced robots yet. We also don't have our drones, but we have a low-end drone and a high-end drone. Again, the mission of the LTI lab is to experiment with technology, organizing information, accessing information. Again, those of you online, I will make sure that you have the link to our library technology creation lab that has access to a lot more of our virtual reality world. So the last thing I would say is that we're heavily investing in what's called Mozilla Hubs. Probably, did you ever have a chance to play with Mozilla Hubs? A little bit. Did you? Okay. So certainly my vision is by, I don't know, maybe next December the majority of graduates will have a virtual reality resume, right? And so virtual reality now has taken, has moved away from this and now is browser-based, right? And so Mozilla Hubs can be, this is one of the more, the Mozilla company, it's one of the more famous browser-based virtual reality software environments, basically you can serve virtual reality now, it's a hyperlink, right? And so why would I want our students to have a virtual reality resume? Because as a reporter asked me, why virtual reality? Because 3D gives you 33% more information to organize, sell yourself to display. I mean, it is, what could you do with 33? If you had 30% more time to sell yourself to somebody, would you do it? Yeah, of course, right? And then on top of that, you know, having been on so many interview panels, when you get that PDF resume, if you can also sort it up with a link to virtual reality experience, it's kind of put your way above all the other 50 CDs, right? So that's the other key too. But probably the last thing I would say is that by understanding this technology, you can teach this technology, right? So we're calling it digital literacy and case in point, one of our interns work for the police department in Los Angeles, and she did a lot of 360 work with the RICO, I forgot the RICO camera, the RICO camera is a 360 camera, basically you put it on a pedestal, and it basically works around the room and takes a 360 image. But anyway, our student worked for the police department in Los Angeles. And because of her work with the RICO, she started to think about how they use 360 video and photos for, you know, archiving crime scenes. Or, you know, because the thing about these, these is not only does the archive, but you can zoom in, you can change angles. Oh, by the way, that's where the video is going to, right? So sooner than later, right now, there's specialty cameras with Susan later, we're going to have 360 video cameras, well, we're going to move around to those chains. So anyway, it's just a great time to be a library and creation science professional. So we appreciate your time and attention. How are we doing? We're doing good. Are there any questions or do we even field questions? No questions in the chat that I could see. Okay, great. And I'm Dr. Anthony Chow and this is a friend who you're going to spend the day with. So the next time you see us, Marvin's going to be sushi with me at the reception. So please join us in 45 minutes or so, where we celebrate Marvin and all the graduates