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When used in education, virtual reality (VR) allows students to gain many types of experiences they wouldn't normally have access to in their classrooms. VR allows students to take virtual field trips to places as unusual as the inside of a computer, a fusion reactor and even the moon or Mars.

In the digital age, education has been transformed by innovative technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). These tools not only enrich the teaching process, but also provide immersive experiences for students.

Tech has been part of education for a long time, particularly during the pandemic, when lots of instruction went remote. Questions, though, still arise about whether tech-enhanced learning promotes or stymies the ability to think and relate to others in the workforce. 

Integrating virtual reality (VR) into your classroom may be easier than you think. With rising demand and innovations in the VR technology space, the present may be the best time to integrate virtual reality into your day-to-day lessons. Where it once was an experimental and cutting-edge technology, it’s now gone mainstream.

Teachers need to know their material, but they must also keep their students engaged and interested.

Part of that involves making eye contact with their students – all of them.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers tested several methods of data visualization in an immersive virtual reality (VR) classroom, to give teachers a way to gauge how their gaze was distributed. 

Once they’ve “swum” with a shark, teachers are usually convinced of the value of virtual reality (VR) and what it can achieve. A swim with an apex predator is one of the hair-raising immersive experiences that teacher and education technology expert Simon Luxford-Moore offers staff in order to reveal the potential of immersive learning.

Much has been written recently about the role and impact of VR/XR and AR on gaming, business, entertainment, and sports. I have also mentioned in past articles that VR is a great travel companion as it can whisk you away to the travel destinations of your dreams. 

Immersive virtual reality-based interventions (VR) can improve cognitive deficits associated with ADHD in children, according to a study published in 2023 in the journal Virtual Reality. Compared to active and passive control groups, children with ADHD experienced positive outcomes with large effect sizes global cognitive functioning, attention, and memory when using immersive VR therapies.

While VR hardware costs remain a major adoption barrier for K-12, experts say the technologies could provide an outlet for students with autism or social anxiety to practice social and emotional skills.