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META FUNDS VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AT 7 UNIVERSITIES COMPLETE WITH VR HEADSETS

A nursing school, a HBCU, four land grant schools and one global campus plan to
open digital twins of existing campuses in fall 2022.

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College students at schools from Georgia to Oregon will have a new
back-to-school supply this fall: virtual reality headsets. Seven universities
and colleges are opening digital twins of their campuses to offer an alternative
to class via video call.

Each school will roll out a digital twin of campus for students to attend either
on campus or remotely. Each student will receive a Meta Quest 2 virtual reality
headset for use during the course. Courses will be synchronous as if they were
attending class on a physical campus.


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The universities and colleges include:

 * Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
 * University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS
 * New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
 * South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
 * West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
 * University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, MD
 * Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR

The student populations in the cohort range from 2,200 at Morehouse to 25,000 at
West Virginia University. Several are land grant universities located in rural
communities. University of Maryland Global Campus is a separate institution
within the University System of Maryland which started as the University of
Maryland’s evening program for adults in the 1920s.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLP, said that virtual
universities are not “worse than in-person” but instead “better than onscreen.”

“A metaverse classroom experience ought to be considered not as a gimmicky
replacement for traditional human experience, but as a compelling upgrade over
slide decks and tic-tac-toe ‘heads-in-boxes,’” he said.

SEE: Virtual reality: A cheat sheet for business pros

Bechtel said it will take time for teachers and students to identify and build
on the strengths of virtual classrooms. The early days will not be the best
ones.

“I chuckle when I’m asked to convene people in a mind-blowing immersive
metaverse amphitheater to show them…existing PowerPoint slides,” he said.

Bechtel advised early adopters to avoid the mistake of comparing virtual
classrooms with physical ones.

“If we can pivot from thinking like critics to thinking like creators, the
future starts to look quite a bit brighter,” he said.


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Bechtel is a part-time college professor and has first-hand experience with the
challenges of teaching online. The dual challenges of battery and bandwidth
could be stumbling blocks early on for these virtual universities.

“In a metaverse classroom environment, low bandwidth or battery might mean a
diminished experience, student anxiety, or even being marked erroneously
‘absent,’” he said. “Clearly, graceful failovers (both procedural and technical)
will be required.”

Another dynamic to watch is interpersonal cues from students. Bechtel said he
has learned how–in live settings and on video conferences–to read body language
and facial expressions to spot students who are lost or stuck.

“In a metaverse space, I might lose out on some of those cues,” he said. “To be
fair, though, we’re seeing affordances emerge wherein participants can update
their avatar’s expression or ‘emit’ emoji over their heads to give non-verbal
cues.”


EXPANDING VIRTUAL LEARNING OPTIONS

Steve Grubbs, VictoryXR CEO, said in a press release that these schools have
decided to look for something better than a Zoom class. Three additional
metaversities will be announced in May.The partnership was funded in part by
Meta Immersive Learning, which will provide Meta Quest 2 headsets for each
campus as well as funding for the digital twin buildouts. This project is part
of the company formerly known as Facebook’s $150 million investment in virtual
learning. VictoryXR will build each campus on the EngageVR platform.

VictoryXR develops Virtual Reality content for the following systems:

 * HTC Vive
 * HTC Vive Focus
 * Windows Mixed Reality
 * Oculus Rift
 * Oculus Go
 * Oculus Quest
 * Pico
 * Lenovo Mirage (running Google Daydream)
 * Google Cardboard

The company also creates augmented reality content for iPhones and Android
phones.


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