Developing Virtual Reality Applications

Chapter 6. Education Applications

Take a look inside almost any classroom in an elementary school, high school, university, or a corporate training room and what will you find? Most likely, the communication of visual phenomenon is attempted using some combination of two-dimensional display devices such as textbooks, chalkboards, overhead projectors, bulletin boards, and computer screens.

Although many scholastic subjects involve learning about three-dimensional entities, the pupil’s primary mode of receiving information is two dimensional. With the exception of certain cases where physical artifacts (for example arrowheads, or ball-and-stick models of molecules) are integrated into the instructional program, the student must extend the ideas that ...