CRUNCH NETWORKWhen Virtual Reality Meets EducationPosted Jan 23, 2016 by Elizabeth Reede (@ElizabethReede), Larissa Bailiff (@larissa_bailiff)
Since the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been hovering on the periphery of technology without achieving accepted mainstream application or commercial adoption. Since 2012, VR startups have raised more than $1.46 billion in venture capital, including more than $100 million in funding during the last four consecutive quarters.................... http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/23/when-virtual-reality-meets-education/ |
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Virtual reality may be seen by some as the next best thing in the gaming industry, but one of virtual reality's fastest-moving applications may be within education........
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Google Virtual-Reality System Aims to Enliven EducationBy NATASHA SINGERSEPT. 28, 2015
As part of a class last year on “Romeo and Juliet,” Jennie Choi, an English teacher at Mariano Azuela Elementary School in Chicago, took her sixth-grade students on a tour of Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare’s play transpires........ Read more |