wraggster
April 19th, 2014, 23:29
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/a2203c2539ce12f4d4abf4f6dadf28e3/200047663/Rift-Kid23.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/19/irish-school-children-are-building-worlds-for-the-oculus-rift/)
If games, wildlife documentaries (http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/11/wildlife-documentary-on-oculus-rift/) and virtual strolls in the park (http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/18/oculus-rift-helps-terminally-ill-woman/) aren't enough to validate virtual reality for you, try this one: educational motivation. School children in Ireland have been using a open source version of Second Life (http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/hands-free-3d-enables-your-movements-to-control-second-life-avat/) to learn coding, 3D modeling and to create virtual spaces of recent field trips. Their most recent project: recreating the monastery of Clonmacnoise and exploring it with an Oculus Rift. Technically the Rift isn't part of the classroom's normal operations -- the founder of the MissionV (http://missionv.ie/) virtual reality platform the school is visiting brought it with him on a recent visit -- but it did give the students a new perspective on the world they had built. "Whoa," one student exclaimed, looking at the classroom's recreation of Clonmacnoise's McCarthy Tower. "That is humongous."
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/19/irish-school-children-are-building-worlds-for-the-oculus-rift/
If games, wildlife documentaries (http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/11/wildlife-documentary-on-oculus-rift/) and virtual strolls in the park (http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/18/oculus-rift-helps-terminally-ill-woman/) aren't enough to validate virtual reality for you, try this one: educational motivation. School children in Ireland have been using a open source version of Second Life (http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/hands-free-3d-enables-your-movements-to-control-second-life-avat/) to learn coding, 3D modeling and to create virtual spaces of recent field trips. Their most recent project: recreating the monastery of Clonmacnoise and exploring it with an Oculus Rift. Technically the Rift isn't part of the classroom's normal operations -- the founder of the MissionV (http://missionv.ie/) virtual reality platform the school is visiting brought it with him on a recent visit -- but it did give the students a new perspective on the world they had built. "Whoa," one student exclaimed, looking at the classroom's recreation of Clonmacnoise's McCarthy Tower. "That is humongous."
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/19/irish-school-children-are-building-worlds-for-the-oculus-rift/