Next Generation Mobile Sharing

Emporia State has begun a pilot adoption of Mersive Solstice mobile sharing. Mersive represents the latest generation in wireless collaboration. This product supports an unlimited number of students connecting to the Mersive Pod - provided bandwidth is sufficient. The Pods are about the size of a man's wallet and hide discretely behind the monitor. Images, videos, applications (apps), documents can all be shared via Mersive Solstice. Not only that, but each student can share multiple files, images, or videos at the same time! Dr. Matt Seimears, Chair of Elementary Education, Early Childhood, and Special Education, is using Mersive as a replacement to the course text. Mersive works equally on iOS and Android. A Chrome version is in development.

 

Three students sharing their screens at the same time using Mersive

Additional Mersive functionality includes the ability to create a "stack" of shared images. The stack can then be flipped through, like a flipbook. Stacks can be disaggregated as well.

Creating a Mersive Stack is as easy as clicking on an image

Mersive Stack with Flipping Capability

Moreover, images or shared files can be drug to the left sidebar of the screen to move them out of the way. If the presenter wants the image back, they simply drag it back off the left hiding panel.

 

The left peek-a-boo panel provides a convenient hiding place for images when not in use

Finally, each student is represented by what Mersive refers to as a Meeple. These Meeples appear along the bottom of the screen and are color coded to represent each person. The color code is carried into the main screen and borders the files being shared by that person so that others can quickly associate who is sharing which files using color coding. Other features include a Grid array that lines up shared images in a tidy format.

 

Mersive Meeples (People) appear along the bottom and represent each student

The next iteration of our rollout will include panels that support touch capabilities to control Mersive Pods. We're super excited to demonstrate this technology to any interested faculty!