article thumbnail

The Future of VR in Education: Full Immersion in Learning

ARPost

VR tools are used in the classroom to simulate certain objects, processes, or environments. For example, instead of dissecting a frog, schoolchildren do this procedure in an educational VR Frog Dissection virtual reality experience. Pupils dissect a simulated frog and examine the structure of the body without harming an animal.

Education 443
article thumbnail

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He's currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University's Media X program at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. We can use a simulation to help do what's called exposure therapy.

article thumbnail

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

article thumbnail

Practicing Soft Skills by Firing Barry in VR, with Talespin's Kyle Jackson

XR for Business Podcast

. -- where you've got this co-pilot training, which is the Barry virtual humans, but you've listed here "With co-pilot training modules, you can teach interpersonal skills with emotional realism" Amazing. So the idea of simulation and the idea of being able to really leverage all of VR's benefits was a 100 percent fit.

article thumbnail

Practicing Soft Skills by Firing Barry in VR, with Talespin’s Kyle Jackson

XR for Business Podcast

So first of all — if anybody wants to visit its Talespin.company — where you’ve got this co-pilot training, which is the Barry virtual humans, but you’ve listed here “With co-pilot training modules, you can teach interpersonal skills with emotional realism” Amazing.

article thumbnail

Practicing Soft Skills by Firing Barry in VR, with Talespin’s Kyle Jackson

XR for Business Podcast

. — where you’ve got this co-pilot training, which is the Barry virtual humans, but you’ve listed here “With co-pilot training modules, you can teach interpersonal skills with emotional realism” Amazing. ” How does that compare to what companies are doing currently around these types of things?