Google Gemini: The power of photorealism in historical education

I have spoken many times about how great Google Gemini is. Here, I talk about how it can be used in historical education because of its high realism. These are not the stylized images of Dalle-3 but something that has weight in the depiction of reality. This ability to recreate reality is very important in education as ChatGPT and Google Gemini already have research tabs to allow for students to improve their understanding of the past.

Middle Class young woman in Martinsburg in 1840 era.

The image above comes from the prompt: Create photorealistic image of a young Middle Class woman in Martinsburg, Virginia in her room in 1840 era.

Such AI generations are more accurate than previously and you can ask Gemini to elaborate on these images, especially if you see something incorrect in the image.

One such elaboration beyond correcting anachronisms is the ability to label everything in that image. Here is an example.

Google Gemini creates a Photorealistic image of a young Middle-Class woman in Martinsburg, Virginia in her room in 1870 era.

The image above comes from the prompt: Create photorealistic image of a young Middle Class woman in Martinsburg, Virginia in her room in 1870 era.

Next I use the prompt for the chatbot to label the photo: Take this image and label everything that is historically relevant for teaching about this age in interior design and style.

Google Gemini Image with Identifiers on the Image

You would have had to research specific sections separately just to be able to know what each of these elements meant in context. Such a tool as Gemini proves that AI is not just about “taking” people’s jobs or hobbies but enhancing them and making look at our surroundings more closely.

The implications for education can revitalize a rather stagnant profession. This can be way of putting in Socratic thinking into schools, connecting ideas in concentric relationships instead of the linear ideas I was exposed to when I was in my schooling age. There will be people who criticize these tools for stealing people’s art or photographs. My response is that we should be heterodox on this issue.

Chatbots such as ChatGPT are only getting more sophisticated at creating historical images. Teachers should be attempting to use these tools and encourage their students to learn how to use them.

There were many early stories about students using ChatGPT in order to cheat. Now is the time to be able to help students use these tools to understand the nature of their history and societies.

Beexcellent Gaming Headset with Mic 2026 Review

Beexcellent Gaming Headset with Mic

$13.99

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

This is among one of the best purchases I have made on TEMU. I purchased this headset in 2023 when TEMU was still a very new site.

This gaming headset has been around for a while. When researching, I saw videos from 2016 reviewing it. However, gaming headset technology has not changed that much and this is still very much worth the money just for the design alone.

There are many gaming headsets that are now available on online stores. However, not one gaming headset is built the same even if the technology seems to have stayed relatively the same.

What Beexcellent has to offer is being a high-quality gaming headset for a good price. Sometimes one wants to be able immerse in sound while playing a video game or listening to music.

Another great aspect to this headphone it is has a very good microphone. Unlike some cheap models, this is very reasonable for the price.

Aesthetically speaking, this is one of the best gaming headsets that I have purchased online. These headsets light up when you plug them in and the color changes. This is a nice touch which adds some flair to this headset.

One issue is that the headset requires a USB port and is rather clunky to use. However, considering that it is a gaming headset, you are getting a device which trades convenience for quality.

Overall, in a market with so gaming headsets, the Beexcellent headset is one of the best you can buy on a budget. The audio quality isn’t best quality, but this is well worth it as it is very immersive in sounds.

Motorola Edge 2023 Photo Quality Review

I have been using the Motorola Edge 2023 since August 2024 and this camera takes some incredible images.

In comparison to the older cameras that I used to have in the mid 2010s, this camera is much better than those older phones here. I decided to take some pictures in the Northern Virginia area. Specifically, the Tysons Corner area with all the big glass buildings.

The Motorola Edge 2023 is not a high-end phone but the quality of these images show powerful the phone cameras are getting now. When I got my Nikon L810 in 2012, I thought that was an impressive camera. These photographs are showing the improvement in the quality of phone cameras since the mid 2000s. In that previous era, the quality of these cameras was quite limiting and sometimes were seen as potato cameras. Now, these phone cameras are being used to make high quality movies.

While these buildings in Tysons Corner are not the nicest looking buildings, they are futuristic looking buildings that appear well in the camera.

This phone is absolutely worth the money just for the camera alone. The smartphone has long since made the regular cameras unnecessary for most consumers. I still have my Nikon L810 for the uses of taking pictures of objects which are far away but the smartphone is simply more convenient and better to use when you just want to take photos with as little in the way as possible here.

Overall, these photographs are of high quality and well worth a look if you want a cheap smartphone that takes great photos.