Jack Schofield

Freelance blogger

Jack Schofield spent the 1970s editing photography magazines before becoming editor of an early UK computer magazine, Practical Computing. In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column for the Guardian, and joined the staff to launch… the newspaper's weekly computer supplement in 1985. This section launched the Guardian’s first website and, in 2001, its first real blog. When the printed section was dropped after 25 years and a couple of reincarnations, he felt it was a time for a change....

Latest from Jack Schofield

Take a 3D virtual tour of the UK's National Museum of Computing

Now you can take a virtual reality look around part of The UK's National Museum of Computing, either in a web browser or using a Samsung Gear or Google Cardboard headset. There's also a similar tour the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California.

June 7, 2017 by Jack Schofield in Virtual Reality

UK company launches 'classroom VR' with packs of 8 cheap headsets

Avantis launched an Android-based ClassVR virtual reality headset at last week's BETT exhibition in London. It's selling them in boxes of eight.

January 31, 2017 by Jack Schofield in Virtual Reality

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Take a 3D virtual tour of the UK's National Museum of Computing

UK company launches 'classroom VR' with packs of 8 cheap headsets

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