Do you think Social Virtual Reality would be useful for education/tutoring?

Hi! Me and some friends are working on creating a social Virtual Reality learning environment. We are targeting this towards education/tutoring and wanted to get feedback to see if it’d actually be useful.

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What we see as the benefits:

- Our platform is social, so you can interact with your student from inside the virtual world.

- It would be a way to differentiate yourself from other tutors.

- We would provide the standalone VR headsets (No computer needed. Can move around and use hands in VR).

- VR prevents distractions for students, can engage them better, and can explain concepts from the real 3D world better.

- Its fun!

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Here’s some example uses:

• Physics
  • Electric fields / Electrostatics
  • Kenematics
  • Astronomy
• Math
  • 3D drawing together to visualize math problems that are in 3D space (ex: Multivariable Calculus)
• Biology and Chemistry
  • 3D representations of organs
  • Show interactions and biological systems in 3D
• Etc. Anything from the real world that is 3D can be visualized better in VR

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Questions:

What educational material do you think would work well with this?

Do you think you’d find this useful for yourself?

• If yes, what do you think a reasonable monthly price would be?
• If no, why not?

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Thanks for your time!

Submitted June 26, 2019 at 08:38PM by ahomentc https://ift.tt/31VdTEK