On April 11-12, 2016 I attended the first ever VR Summit Conference held in NYC. There were excellent sessions and panels given by experts in the VR/AR field, but unfortunately not much in the way of exhibitors. Still, some useful information emerged for the “VR and education” field.

Virtual reality is alive and growing in the gaming world. With the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive released and shipping (mostly), and the Playstation VR on the horizon, it is an exciting time to be in the gaming industry. As usual, the education world is taking its sweet time to watch from […]

Its been a month since I last checked the New York Times VR app and they have some new content! Now before you get excited, its only four new videos and TWO of them are sponsored by commercial corporations. So it seems the percentage of commercially sponsored content is going up. Well, can you be […]

I finally got the Google Expeditions beta test working and led a few others through a virtual reality (not 3D though) field trip. Fun for students and some helpful features for teachers make this a great beginning for VR in schools.

After listening to VR pundits talk from GDC these are three takeaways about the state of VR that could help the education space.