The Infinity Store: Viveport in Schools
Last week HTC Vive launched their much-heralded Viveport Infinity subscription service. Dubbed “The Netflix of VR”, Infinity removes...
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90 VR Education Apps for Vive, Rift and WMR
When it comes to locating educational content for a PC-powered VR headset like a Vive, Rift or WMR, it can be a little tricky for three...
Can you feel empathy for a tree in VR?
Back in 2017 I connected with David Romero from HTC Vive. David is involved with Vive’s VR for Impact programme which provides grants for...
Step inside Artwork in Virtual Reality
My monthly column for the brilliant VR Focus continued in January with an article looking at a special subset of VR art apps that allow...
The Top 10 VR Edu Apps of 2018
My December column for VR Focus was a top ten list of educational VR apps for 2018. As opposed to my list from 2017 (which you can read...
When is a Desert an Art Gallery?
I’ve been working on a follow-up piece to my article looking at the potential for the Vive Focus in education in the last week and in the...
Practical ways to integrate high-end VR
September sees the launch of a series of guest articles I am writing for VR Focus. I'll be writing one article a month for them and the...
10 More Tips for using the HTC Vive
One of the very first articles I wrote for this site was entitled “5 tips for using the HTC Vive in your classroom” It covered five...
Taking a Journey to Mars
Two weeks ago I returned to GESS Dubai for my seventh year and delivered a set of presentations on the theme of VR in education. In the...
The #CPDinVR First Anniversary Event
In June 2017 I decided to try something new, something that hadn’t been done before in education – to host a professional development...
The Ramadan VR Project
The 2017-18 academic year has just finished for me and it’s been a huge one for VR at JESS Dubai with countless projects taking place...
The Vive Focus in Education
UPDATED 25/5/18: This article has been updated below with additional information 2018 marks the next step in the evolution of VR with the...
The #VRclassroom Experiment
Guest post by Chris Long. “Hey Steve… I’ve got an idea.” Most people know to shut their ears and run for the hills when I say I have an...
Exploring Human Anatomy with YOU
I love the way new realities have the ability to transform medical education and thus, at an earlier stage, biology classes. I’ve tested...
Top 10 #ViveEDU apps of 2017
It’s that time of year when people share their Best of the Year retrospectives and since this year has been so dominated by all things VR...
Into The Deep: Operation Apex
I’ve always had an interest in aquatic life, likely born from my dad being a keen fisherman and my uncle owning a tackle shop when I was...
The #CPDinVR Panel - December 2017
After a month off due to a combination of illness, moving house and a bunch of other commitments, I hosted the final #CPDinVR event of...
Meaningful, multi-platform VR integration
As many of you will know, I work as Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across JESS Dubai. JESS is a group of three schools – two...
Welcome to the Jungle: Amazon Odyssey
One place that has always fascinated me is the Amazon Rainforest. It also makes for a wonderful topic of study in schools and our Year 5...
VR for Empathy panel discussion
On September 15th I held the most recent #CPDinVR session inside Engage. This was a special panel discussion about the power of VR to...
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