XR Guru | Educational Solutions

Today’s youth are tech-savvy, to say the least. In fact, teenagers frequently access mobile phones, tablets, and virtual reality head-mounted devices in this decade. With more technology, comes more unseen problems like dwindling attention spans, information overload, and confusion on what to adopt and what to ignore. Nevertheless, due to the pandemic, even Kindergarten children are forced to embrace e-Classrooms, where the teacher speaks and shows videos for learning. How effective is it, is anybody’s guess! The same kindergarten child is hooked to YouTube videos like Peppa the Pig due to their predominant fun aspect. How can we re-engineer the situation so that we address the problem of declining attention spans, not just for kids, but for adults as well? From a quality and value perspective, let us look at 4 such strategic benefits that VR has to offer to the learning community at large. 1. VR Provides an Immersive Learning environment A popular adage goes thus: Out of sight,...

We have to thank games like Pokémon Go and social media apps like Snapchat for incorporating Augmented Reality in their applications and making it known to the world. The world of education is slowly but surely incorporating Augmented Reality while developing their curricula for Generation Z and beyond. In this blog post, we look at some compelling use cases for Augmented Reality to train students at school in 2022 and the future. 1. AR for Kindergarten At the Kindergarten level, students are required to remember and understand various names of objects. Textbooks help the students here in acquiring names and various vocabularies across languages. Imagine if the words were to come alive and help the students visualize the meaning of the concepts. Such a scenario would help students connect the words with the exact concept being referred to. AR books are the rage now. Students and their parents can point their smartphones on various market embedded images and words, bringing people, anim...

What Is the Need for Education to Undergo a Digital Transformation in Recent Times? Virtual Reality has been making forays in Education for quite a while. Its positive effects are seen even more due to the recent Covid-19 pandemic. With nationwide repeated lockdowns and forced quarantines, the world is forced to relook at all collective human activity. Education is one of the activities on which people spend a few decades of their lives on. With constant updates in science and technology, learning has become a way of life now for almost all disciplines. The next few decades will redefine all human activities like never before, thanks to Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation. Virtual Reality in Education is expected to reach its critical mass soon due to the proliferation of Virtual Reality Head Mounted Devices (VR HMDs) in the past decade. What Is the Pressing Need for VR to Transform Education? When everything is transforming, so should our ancient pedagogies and meth...