The little boy, about 7 years old, almost disappeared inside the virtual reality headset, yet the way he was holding up his hands showed he knew exactly what to do. A laptop screen showed what he was ...

Arizona State is using virtual reality to jump-start its freshman biology program. The Dreamscape Learn program immerses students into a fictional world where students can take on hands-on learning ...

Pull on your headset, attach hand motion trackers, choose your avatar. You’re now ready for biology lab at one of Arizona State University’s new virtual reality pods. Biology students are among the ...

The pandemic has dramatically disrupted traditional learning. While that disruption has widened gaps in access to education that existed along racial, ethnic, and socio-economic lines, it has also ...

As virtual reality technology continues to develop, more colleges and universities are integrating it into the student experience inside and outside of the classroom. A recent survey of chief ...

In the midst of the fall term during the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S. universities are continuing the shift to remote learning while other colleges are only allowing 40-60 percent of students on ...

ALBANY — For generations, learning to be a nurse meant studying textbooks, practicing on mannequins and then facing real people. Now, modern nursing schools have added a new step: virtual reality.

WASHINGTON (7News) — George Washington University nursing students are putting down their pens and putting on virtual reality goggles to learn real-world skills. 7News Health and Wellness Reporter ...

Although we might still be a long way from dialing into the Matrix, virtual reality has evolved significantly since Heilig’s Sensorama in the 1960s, and it isn’t being used strictly for entertainment ...

Open-heart surgery is a hard thing to practice in the real world, and airplane pilots cannot learn from their mistakes midair. These are some scenarios where virtual reality solves really hard ...