June 03, 2022

American Higher Educational Institutions Move to Metaverse

T Ten American higher education institutions have signed up to create digital versions of themselves that look 3D and feel immersive when accessed by students wearing VR headsets in the Metaverse.

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences such as the World War. The money for the project has been supplied by Meta, the company that owns Facebook.

…the real value to extended reality generally is to do things that you can’t do any other way…

Jeffrey Pomerantz, associate professor of practice at Simmons University and co-founder of Proximal LLC was quoted as saying, “The real value to extended reality generally is to do things that you can’t do any other way.”

The metaverse enables the use of educational virtual-reality tools in courses, allowing students to manipulate 3D objects, run science experiments or explore historical settings.

This is not the first time that colleges are going to Metaverse. In 2021, VictoryXR used funds from Qualcomm to create a digital campus for Morehouse College intended to be a solution for remote learning that was better than Zoom.

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