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Report: 46% of colleges employ virtual reality in courses

Report: 46% of colleges employ virtual reality in courses | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
An expert says K-12 schools are increasingly using VR, so college students expect it on campus — but network capacity is an issue.
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VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. But Ethical and Technical Challenges Remain.

VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. But Ethical and Technical Challenges Remain. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Some educators tout the immersive power of VR technology, pointing to examples like an app that simulates what it was like to walk on either side o
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Why We’re on the Verge of Reality 

Why We’re on the Verge of Reality  | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Through the illusion of presence, virtual reality allows us to directly transport people into meaningful experiences and impossible story-worlds in a way that is unlike any other medium.
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VR's next horizon: Retina displays right in front of your retinas

VR's next horizon: Retina displays right in front of your retinas | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Nearly eight years have passed since the world first learned about “Retina Displays,” screens with so many tiny pixels per inch (ppi) that the naked eye could no longer see the individual dots. At a roughly 1-foot distance — about where you hold your smartphone — the eye can’t perceive much more than 300ppi, while at tablet, laptop, desktop computer, and TV distances, the ppi number can go lower and lower without pixels being noticeable."

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Making Virtual Reality a Reality in Today's Classrooms 

MIT education researcher Meredith Thompson shares three vignettes of three different approaches to virtual reality in K–12: a social studies class in a suburban school district, a district-wide perspective from an urban school district and a class designed entirely around understanding and implementing VR for other classrooms.
Medicustech's comment, February 5, 2018 12:30 AM
Here the brief details about how Virtual & Augmented Reality using in healthcare industry.

https://medicustech.blogspot.in/2018/01/mixed-reality-in-healthcare-and-its-new.html