XR Guru | Educational Solutions

Virtual education is on the rise as a result of the 2020 Pandemic. For more than a year, students were forced to learn from home. Few people were prepared for this drastic shift, and most were thrown under the bus and unable to fully appreciate the use of a virtual classroom or learning situation. With adequate preparation, there are multiple ways in which to utilize the benefits of a virtual education. The first and most thought of is an online one in which students attend classes via Zoom or any other video communication service. While this did help mitigate the negative aspects of this sudden shift, as well as showcase a few benefits of virtual learning, it didn't allow for a full view of the possibilities that virtual learning presents. This leads to the second way for students to learn virtually, which is by the use of virtual reality (VR), a digital extension of the physical world. While it did take a major pandemic to launch VR into the educational spotlight, virtual reality...

Virtual reality thus far has been limited. Not by the technology itself, but by what we thought the technology could be used for. It has been limited mostly to gaming, with some military and other training applications. In the last decade, however, it has branched out into different industries. It's found space in education, healthcare, and construction. Manufacturing has also taken up the technology and is using virtual reality to streamline the manufacturing process. Those who have adapted virtual reality for manufacturing have found that it makes production faster, safer, and more efficient than traditional processes. The more business owners in manufacturing that learn about the benefits of virtual reality and implementing the technology into their production processes the more efficient it will become. Virtual reality is streamlining manufacturing by offering enhanced training opportunities for new and veteran workers, creating a more efficient work flow, eliminating costly mi...