Rumii
This might help make remote classes feel more like traditional ones, too.
Taking online classes is an easy way to fit college into your schedule without the need to physically be on campus. But, there are drawbacks. Full Sail University hopes that implementing virtual reality into its courses will help eliminate some of those faults. The Florida-based school is collaborating with Doghead Simulations on a virtual classroom app. The idea is to help remote students feel more like they’re sitting in a lecture hall rather than watching a professor’s YouTube video or taking an online survey, according to VR Focus.
The app is called Rumii, and at its core it’s a teleconferencing suite. The twist is that it’s native to VR and gives meeting participants a customizable avatar and meeting space. With it, you can share documents, give presentations (with a laser pointer even) and browse the web on a giant screen at the front of a virtual conference room. As you can see in the video below, there’s a lot of promise for this sort of thing, especially when you consider that Doghead is working on a version for mobile VR.
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Source: Engadget