Oculus Go is going to be used to study VR’s role in education.
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A pilot program will send VR headsets to schools, libraries and museums to see how they can be used to aid education.
Oculus is taking VR back to school.
To get a handle on how virtual reality can be used in education, the VR headset maker is launching a pilot program to study how the immersive technology can be used to aid learning and collaboration, Oculus said Tuesday. The pilot program, called Oculus Education, will distribute Oculus Go and Rift headsets to schools, libraries and museums in Taiwan, Japan and Seattle.
The program will focus on training teachers and other instructors on the use of VR and gathering feedback and other lessons learned, specifically the unique needs to specific institutions. That information will then be passed on to Oculus’ product teams for future consideration.
The program is the latest effort to spur interest and adoption of virtual reality, which promises to transport goggle-wearing users to a computer-generated 3D environment. The technology promises to upend the way we live and has attracted giant investments by heavyweights like Google and Oculus’ parent Facebook.
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Source: Cnet