This document discusses the potential of virtual reality (VR) for education. It begins by providing an overview of VR, including its use for gaming, immersive cinema, and interactive storytelling. VR is described as a new medium that can simulate other media and provide highly interactive and personalized learning experiences. The document concludes by assigning groups of students to research educational VR apps, discuss their qualities and potential for improvement, and present their findings to the class.

1. VIRTUAL REALITY FOR SCIENCE & EDUCATION
LECTURE 4: 2 OCT 2015
Virtual Reality
Potential for education

2. What is this thing calledVR?

3. Next generation gaming
• Oculus Rift started as a gaming
device
• Interactive
• Navigate through virtual world
• Non-linear story-telling
What is this thing calledVR?

4. Immersive cinema
What is this thing calledVR?
• Development of spherical cameras
 Enormous increase in content
• EmbodiedVision 2015: relation between cinema andVR
• How is editing different in spherical video?
• How to draw focus to certain parts of the scene?
• Where to hide the crew?
• Experiments with cinematic effects inVR: green screens, stop-motion,
split-screens, the dolly zoom and timelapses
• Interactive cinema with gaze detection

5. Future of Theatre?
What is this thing calledVR?

6. Interactive story-telling?
What is this thing calledVR?

7. A new medium
What is this thing calledVR?
• Different characteristics and new rules
• New languages will emerge in the following years
• Strongly influenced by existing media
• Different rules for different experiences
• ‘The last medium’ suggested by some
• A reproduction of our perceptual experience of the
world
• Other media can be simulated inVR
• VR cinema, book reading simulation

8. VR: Potential for education
A new medium to our disposal
We have seen interesting ideas and applications
Interesting in many different ways
• Highly interactive, personalized learning experiences,
immersive experiences, social experiences, etc.
How to judge the educational value of aVirtual Reality app?

9. Group assignment
• Form 6 groups of 5-6 people.
• Research and experience your group’s application.
• Discuss its qualities using the question list.
• Think about how this app could be improved and expanded.
• Present your findings about the educational value and suggestions
for future improvement and/or expansion to the class.
• Presentations are 4 minutes each and start at 12:25