Category: VR Educational Design
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3D Organon’s VR Anatomy: Thoughts on Design and Theory
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Recently, some colleagues and I wrote a paper identifying the cognitive and learning theories underlying the virtual reality (VR) learning application, VR Anatomy, by 3D Organon. In essence, it is a program that contains a highly interactive, detailed, and customizable 3D human anatomy model. It allows for users to manipulate different…
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Virtual Reality and its Educational Possibilities: Constructivist learning
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Previously, I discussed how the use of virtual reality in education can increase students’ interest and engagement. Now that this fairly obvious statement has been made, we can move on to a second, more interesting point. Virtual reality allows for constructivist learning VR also provides an opportunity for constructivist learning,…
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Virtual reality and its educational possibilities
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Virtual reality’s renaissance is now a little over a year and some months old. The 2016 releases of the Oculus Rift CV1, HTC Vive, and some say the years earlier release of the Google Cardboard, spawned a frenzy of speculation about the future. Education is a realm that is no…
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zSpace: Another option for virtual learning
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zSpace is a company that has quietly been spreading its influence in virtual learning and education. Recently I got to try it out again and I remember trying out their product about a year ago at a conference, being somewhat impressed but mostly distracted by the shiny new head-mounted-displays (HMDs)…
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Tools for VR Creation in the Classroom
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(An updated list of Web-based VR creation tools can be found here. ) As virtual reality continues its journey into the K-12 education sector, the idea of having students create their own experiences is becoming more realistic. Whether its annotating their own 360 pictures or developing custom interactive VR environments…
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Samsung Gear VR and reflections on education: AltspaceVR, Oculus Video and Photo
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About two weeks ago I bought a Samsung Gear VR and I am more impressed with it every time I put it on. Thankfully, my wife already owned a Samsung Note 5 so I figured what’s $99 + tax for a better experience than Google Cardboard? And much better it…
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Virtual Field Trips: Should schools go outside anymore?
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As a lover of the outdoors and advocate for virtual reality, I run through this dilemma quite often: Why go outside when you can virtually experience places in the comfort of your own home? This came up once again when I recently viewed VRSE’s Waves of Grace experience.