Just over a year and a half ago I set up this website with two specific goals - 1. To share ideas and examples of best practice in the use of AR and VR in education 2. To connect with like-minded educators and pioneers working with immersive technologies. As I sit here writing the site’s 100th article, I think it’s safe to say that I’m doing pretty well with regards to my first goal but I never dreamed that I would build such an amazing network of colleagues, collaborators an

Guest post by Caitlin Krause Modern approaches to learning have recently been dominated by the idea of presence — a concept that goes much deeper than attendance in a classroom. In working with mindfulness and technology, I view presence as engagement, a fullness of body and mind. We know, just looking at our students, when they are “on”, involved and invested in the learning, serving as active participants — or, when they are somehow distanced, excluded, absent or otherwise

Guest post by Steven Sato "The Fundamental Attribution Error, as coined by Stanford Psychologists, describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us. There is a misconception that losing one's home is due to who you are and the choices you make. Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience seeks to counter this irrational tendency.” - Stanford - Virtual Human Interaction Lab Virtual Reality is sometimes class

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 idea. When I approached Steve Bambury and suggested I host a class in the UK and have him port in via virtual reality, he quickly pointed out all the technical challenges, but didn’t say no… It should only be 10 minutes, sandwiched between other events. It’ll be easy! It all started because I had been speaking to Dave Haynes of HTC. Dav

Guest post by Ronan McNicholl Google Earth VR demonstrates the immersive and experiential power of virtual reality in education. How can this be used in the classroom? Naturally, Google Earth VR is a perfect fit for geography teachers as it can help bring the subject to life. Students can access a vast array of topics related to physical and human geography. For example, pupils could explore active volcanoes, visit urban environments or possibly learn about glacial and coas

Guest post by Alex Johnson There is a line in Steve’s article about Tilt Brush from last year that echoes my own initial impressions of Google's VR painting application - “While I enjoyed the process of using the app immensely, I was never producing anything with any real artistic skill.” Now, as with most things, the more time you spend practicing something, the more you learn and grow. At first, I wasn’t able to achieve very much artistically with Tilt Brush. Slowly, howev

Guest post by Dr Micah Shippee “During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a standalone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we’d visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen’s empire in all its glory.) In my next class, Biology, we traveled through a human heart and watched it pumping from the inside, just like in that old movie, Fantastic Vo