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VR and AI Use Cases that Excite Another Use Case That Excites me about the products and applications we are building at Meta is Education. VR provides better results in education. Imagine the immersive nature of interacting with your subject matter. Taking a journey through the human body in photorealistic audio-visual format (I can still see the illustrations in my mind from my Dorling Kindersley's 'How Stuff Works, How the Body works' series of books). Thank you David Macauley. Imagine the association and the retention it fosters. At school, my best subjects (like Physics) were the ones I had the most intimate relationship with, understanding the first principles at its core, and the potentially different scenarios that could come with it. I didn't need to memorize, and I didn't need to struggle with recall. I could literally read the text and draw the picture from the page of the text book (I still see that house with the lightning conductor on it, and how it prevents homes from being destroyed by lightning strikes). Now imagine how much more enhanced learning in VR/XR actually is. You can be there, in the room, on that fateful day in August 2, 1776 when the declaration of independence was signed. You can see who was in the room, what they were wearing, how they might have stood. You might even call them by name, and they would turn to you and respond. Imagine history classes and engaging with material like 'the men who built America', or crawling through a Harriet Tubman tunnel space, or observing chemical bonding at a cellular or atomic level. VR is a game changer for education and Meta is inviting you to come help lead the way. All that's needed to apply is, your imagination.

VR tech meets Education ... whilst this may not underwrite Meta's billions of dollars investment in VR, it could be a happy beneficiary! Online higher education has been seeing strong growth since Covid, and I can definitely see how VR and metaverse can help plug some of the experiential and networking gaps that online has vs the in-person experience... #meta #vr #education #universities #tech #edtech

#Technology evolution in #education and #training. How #VR and #XR can increase access and engagement, and reduce cost. IGIVU VictoryXR

Transforming the future of education is no longer a distant goal – it's happening now with immersive VR technology brought to classrooms to fundamentally reshape how students engage with STEM subjects. We're proud to work with Prisms and their platform that's revolutionizing math and science education with VR. With PICO headsets, students now have the opportunity to experience complex STEM concepts in a way that's interactive, intuitive, and incredibly engaging. Why It Matters: ▸ Traditional learning methods can sometimes struggle to keep students engaged. ▸ VR bridges the gap by offering hands-on, experiential learning that boosts retention and understanding. ▸ Prisms’ VR lessons allow students to visualize, interact, and immerse themselves in real-world applications of math and science. Read more about how PICO and Prisms are shaping the future of learning: https://buff.ly/3TGEl1C Special thanks to Anurupa Ganguly for her drive and determination! #PICOXR #EdTech #Prisms #VirtualReality #STEM #FutureOfEducation

VR Partner program from edgedVR is onboarding institutes worldwide, the team works hand in hand with teachers from University of South Australia to create lessons in VR.  "Learning to manage and navigate headsets is key for teachers' confidence in this new technology! Breaking VR down into various components can be daunting for a non-tech teacher. Hardware, software, and also a very fragmented content platform can be challenging..." "Our hardware partner DPVR offering allows easy-to-use headsets for educational purposes. Just providing one step closer for teachers to adopt and embrace VR." If you are based in Australia seeking professional development courses for educators to integrate VR into classrooms through the technology curriculum, Rosanna Cotino would provide the best guidance available. Click to request training and leverage the benefit of #VRInEducation https://lnkd.in/g2mVsnNG #edtech #spatialcomputing #virtualreality 

OptimaEd, an educational organization for K-12 students that conducts their schooling in virtual reality, wowed the audience of the live metaverse talk show ENGAGED on Wednesday, March 6th. Optima Ed is completely revolutionizing the world of education, as they create immersive and engaging lessons for students. Students of the school have the unique opportunity to interact with completely customized lessons in VR. The lessons the audience got to experience first-hand were learning about the Gold Rush by building a sluice and escaping bandits by answering questions about the Era, rebuilding Poseidon's statue to immerse themselves in Greek Mythology, and shrink down to the size of an ant to get a perspective from an insects view in the forest. Optima Ed operates and builds on the ENGAGE platform, which gives the school an opportunity to create environments, interactive objects and automated or instructor led lessons. #virtualreality #education #educationmatters #virtuallearning #virtualcollaboration #mixedreality #ai https://lnkd.in/dB53NeZN https://lnkd.in/dZNXZG8a  

Random question: how much would it cost to start a VR-based university aimed at disrupting higher ed with a distributed urban-dorm-network* and Uber-for-professors** model? *students would take classes using VR (or AR, MR, XR) from high-tech hubs at dorms, which would be located in highly desirable cities, with some minimum live-in-dorm requirements and options to travel to other dorms within the network. Students could be full-time or take classes to transfer in credits/fulfill requirements at their main institution (like a community college, except high-tech residential, urban, and with competitive admissions). **profs from top-tier universities would teach ONLY SYNCHRONOUS classes in VR with some sort of marketplace mechanic to incentivize teaching (e.g., higher pay for higher demand classes) and a certification mechanism for transferring credit and/or granting degrees. Profs and TAs could teach as a side gig (assuming allowances from their main institution) or maybe even as permanent faculty with a model for supporting/incentivizing research activity and publishing. Yes, it’s a half-baked seed of an idea that would be very difficult to manifest, but assuming something like this is possible, WHAT WOULD IT COST?

Together with Nils Christian Tveiterås we contributed with a chapter in the just published book "Cultural-historical Digital Methodology in Early Childhood Settings". https://lnkd.in/dw3rkAcG In our chapter "VR Technology in an Engaging Early Childhood Teacher Education" we discuss and reflect on methodology in research into the use of Virtual Reality technology (VR) in early childhood teacher education and how this technology might influence the students’ learning environment and learning outcomes. A VR engagement model is proposed where elements from cultural-historical theory is combined with elements from engagement theory and VR research literature. Thanks for the fantastic collaboration with Nils Tveiterås from UiT in Tromsø as part of minor co-supervision within this PhD. Also, thanks to the editors and the other contributors to this book. Cite as: Tveiterås, N.C., Bjørner, T. (2024). VR Technology in an Engaging Early Childhood Teacher Education. In: Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., Ødegaard, E.E., Rai, P., Sadownik, A.R. (eds) Cultural-historical Digital Methodology in Early Childhood Settings. Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://lnkd.in/dw3rkAcG #VR; #Engagement; #Technology; #Teacher; #Edutech