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Download the Unity Plugin for the Wikitude SDK from our website: https://www.wikitude.com

Create a free developer account which gives you access to a free trial license.

Make sure you complete the registration.

Extract the package into a folder of your choice.

Start Unity and create a new project.

Switch to iOS as our target platform for this project.

Go to the Player Settings and change the company name and the bundle ID for this project.

Let's now import the Wikitude Augmented Reality SDK.

Look for the Unity package in the folder you extracted the plugin.

Next, we will create a simple Object Tracking experience.

First add the Wikitude Camera game object.

You can paste there your trial license key.

Now add the Object Tracker from the prefabs and drag it into the scene.

Select which target collection to use for this sample - here we are using our demo firetruck toy.

Add an augmentation that should be shown once the firetruck is recognized.

Using Live Preview it is easy to preview experiences without deploying to an actual device.

Here we are using an attached iPhone X and the Unity Remote application

to stream the camera images to Unity.

Let's run the project in the editor using the Unity Remote application.

Make sure your device is connected to your machine through a cable.

Build the project now to export an Xcode project.

Open the xcode project file that Unity generated.

Add the Wikitude framework to your app project.

Run the same app now directly on your development device

and you have finished your Augmented Reality app :) !

All relevant links can be found in the description below.

For more infomation >> Augmented Reality Tutorial: How to Build an AR app with Wikitude in Unity - Duration: 3:18.

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Build a Lean-to Greenhouse - Duration: 2:24.

I'm Melissa from Empress of Dirt and today I'm going to show you how I built this lean-to

greenhouse.

The original inspiration came from Ana White's Barn Greenhouse which I adapted to fit our

situation.

Ana's greenhouse is a freestanding 8 foot by 12 foot structure.

The one I built is 3 feet by 12 feet.

This is the south side of our covered patio before I started building.

The whole structure is not level so it took some thought to make everything work and look

good in the end.

The first step was to refinish three of these old windows I found free at the side of the

road.

Next, I removed the wood siding from the patio and framed in the windows.

These act as doors to the greenhouse which I built at waist-height for easy access.

Next I built a wooden base.

Because I don't know how the greenhouse will behave in the winter, I decided to simply

block off this space for now and deal with it later.

It might end up storing rain barrels or garden supplies.

The support pieces for the clear roof panels sit right on the base.

They are secured directly to the base and the wall of the patio.

Next, I added foam supports.

These are made for the panels and starting with the upper one, I installed the twelve-foot

panels on the roof.

My long-term plan is to add window vents at either end of the structure but not until

I see how things go this winter.

Here you see a temporary end with a clear half-panel.

A rain storm right after I installed it revealed some leaks so I replaced it with wood for

now and everything is staying nice and dry inside.

Here's a look at the greenhouse now from inside the patio.

I'm propagating some softwood plant cuttings and getting ready to start some cold-tolerant

veggies.

The big dream is to grow salad greens during the winter so we'll see how that goes.

There's more info on all of this at empressofdirt.net.

Thanks for watching and subscribe to see what's next.

For more infomation >> Build a Lean-to Greenhouse - Duration: 2:24.

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Build a Stone Hearth for the Woodstove | Off Grid Log Cabin with My Dog - Duration: 31:14.

For more infomation >> Build a Stone Hearth for the Woodstove | Off Grid Log Cabin with My Dog - Duration: 31:14.

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Building a global university - Duration: 1:42.

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I don't think there are many global universities yet.

Heriot-Watt is starting on that journey

as being a global institution.

A global university moves on from being just one that's

got branch campuses.

The difference is that our campuses are

in different countries, but they could

be like an institution that's got three or four campuses

down the road from each other.

Going global at Heriot-Watt means

that the student can start on one campus,

enroll in a program, and for one the years

of their degree take the same program

at another of our campuses.

It was an ambition of our Malaysia campus to start with.

It's a great recruitment tool for us.

It's really started to take off, and has actually

grown now so that we've got, this year, over 500 students

studying on a different campus.

The applications for next academic year

just started, and we've already got 700 applications.

We have to understand that how you recruit and apply

to be an applicant in Malaysia, or Dubai,

or the UK are all very different from each other.

And so when we were looking for a new admissions system,

we were really keen to find one that

could be adapted to cope with different needs

in different countries, but still

meet the Heriot-Watt need of actually having

simple standard processes that were effective

and enable us to manage our data in a far better way

than we were able to before.

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For more infomation >> Building a global university - Duration: 1:42.

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How to Build a Compassionate Workplace (Dealing with Grief and Loss) - Duration: 7:46.

Sandra: When we were preparing for today, we talked about something called the kvetching

circle, which I had never heard of before, which helps people with some of these conversations.

So, can you take us through this kvetching circle and the rules for conversations now

to help people understand this?

Jess: Yeah, so we're talking about individual resilience, and this about how to respond

as a group, as a network of people, because we're so poor at it, really.

This is titled, this is from an article in LA Times and Op Ed in 2013 and it was titled

"How Not to Say the Wrong Thing", it's a double negative, so it's a bit confusing, but this

woman called Susan came up with the kvetching circle, and I believe kvetch is a Yiddish

word for ... you know what?

I've got to google it.

I think kvetch is supposed to be expressing negative emotion.

Sandra: It's like a complaint.

Jess: Yeah, complaining.

Sandra: Yeah.

Jess: Yeah, yeah.

It's also known as the ring theory.

So, the idea, or the general idea here is that in an uncomfortable situation in our

context here, death, and dying, and loss, the point is that we're trying to push comfort

towards the centre of the situation, and we're trying to push stress or negativity outwards.

So, the idea being that we're trying to not make things emotionally worse for those who

are at the centre.

So, what do we mean by centre?

Well, if say we actually drew this situation for perhaps and experience that we've been

in where somebody has died, we start with the person in the centre, so the person who

is unwell, or the person who is grieving.

The person who is going through the hard time, and then we start to note people who are most

closest to them, so their significant other, their immediate family.

We might then go to the next ring which is their close friends, and might then be their

colleagues.

It might then be their neighbours, and so on and so forth, and so the idea is that if

we are mindful of our own role, as it relates to where we're placed in this ring model,

then it will inform what we need to do.

So, if we are at the centre, our job, our role is to receive the comfort.

If we are towards the outer of this model, our job is to help the people in the centre

dump out their stress, dump out their negativity.

So, I think some examples of where this is not used is when you've got a person who's

relatively not close to somebody who's going through a really hard time, and that person

makes it about them.

They might over identify, "Oh, I've been through that, too," and they make it about them.

So, the idea is that we nurture the people who are closest to that person who's going

through the hardest time.

We need to understand our role and where we are in it in this model, and when I first

saw this, I thought, "What if a workplace had this?

Wouldn't that be awesome?"

And my own experience was that my boss recognised that my two closest colleagues needed to be

empowered to be close to me while I was going through my hard time.

So, she went to Beth and Helen and she said, "Beth and Helen, your job is to be with Jess,

and to take her out for a coffee at least once a week and have a check in with her,"

because she recognised that she was not in the inner circle.

She was two rungs out, but she empowered people who were close to me.

Sandra: That's great.

Jess: Yeah.

Sandra: That's quite practical, isn't it?

So, let's talk a little bit more about some of the things not to say.

You mentioned earlier that there are some examples.

Let's go really into some very practical specific things now around building our skill around

death literacy.

Let's start with what not to say with someone.

Jess: No euphemisms.

Sandra: Right.

Jess: No euphemisms.

Sandra: What do you mean by that?

Jess: I'm sure somebody's listening.

I so would love to ask the group.

"What are your examples?", but look, euphemisms are poor language that we bring in because

we have a death denying society.

So, things like, "Everything has a meaning," that's my favourite.

It's not.

I'm being facetious.

"God doesn't give you what you can't handle".

"Grief is a journey."

We made these platitudes that actually what they're really saying is that we're rejecting

that person's experience.

It's too uncomfortable.

It's too hard.

So, we're going to slap on a cliché and that's going to make it all better.

But what happens is the person on the receiving end of that says, "Well, you've just rejected

my experience because that's meaningless to me."

So, I think number one, it's so easy to- Sandra: Part of the discomfort isn't it?

That uncomfortableness, so it's like, "I don't know what to say, so I'll fumble and say something

that maybe someone said to me, or that I think's the right thing to say," but it's that sense

of the skill level going to another level can make a huge difference if we know what

to say.

Jess: Yeah, but even saying, "I don't know what to say," is much better than coming up

with a euphemism.

Sandra: Yeah.

Jess: I work in this space, and sometimes I don't know what to say, and so I say, "I

just don't know what to say," and the other person is so generous with me.

They'll say, "That's okay.

I don't know how to feel.

We're even."

Sandra: Yeah, that's right.

So what can people say?

Jess: Yeah, look, well, empathise with extreme honesty.

So, be extreme with your empathy.

It might sound something like, "I know you are hurting.

I am here for you."

Be direct.

Call out the elephant.

Don't tippy-toe around it.

You can say, "I am so sorry."

Now, you might get back, "Well, it's not your fault," which is fine, but it's not a euphemism.

You can use the words dying, died, or dead.

You can practise using the D word.

It's very weird for a lot of people to use those words, which I totally respect.

So, it does take a bit of practise, but it's good to use those words.

If you know the person that's died and you're speaking to the survivor, share the memories

of that person as a gift, to share the memories, and lastly this might sound a bit surprising,

but it's not that helpful to say, "What can I do?"

It's certainly not very helpful to say, "Call me if you need anything."

The person going through grief doesn't need to be expected to go into their high functioning

brain to work out what to ask you what to do.

So, it's much better to say something like, "I can do this, or I can do that.

Which one is more helpful for you?"

Make it easy on that person.

So, the idea here is like you're being half a step behind that person, but you're not

leading them anywhere.

It's not your job to have to make sense of their experience or take them anywhere, but

be close to them in their experience, and practise empathy with them.

Sandra: So, you're just letting them know really that you're thinking about them, and

that you're sharing your empathy.

You're articulating your empathy.

Jess: Yeah.

Even when you don't know what to say.