Virtual Reality Disruption: Will 3-D technology break through to the educational mainstream? : Education Next

Virtual Reality Disruption: Will 3-D technology break through to the educational mainstream? : Education Next

Picture this: A student wears a set of goggles that transport her from a classroom in Athens, Georgia, to the Parthenon, 5,600 miles away in Athens, Greece. In an interactive, 3-D world, she peers up and down each of the 17 columns on the temple’s side and examines the fluted shafts. She notes that they…