Google Is Offering Its Virtual Reality Classroom System to Schools for Free
Nick Statt | September 28, 2015
Google wants students everywhere to begin experiencing the world in virtual reality, specifically by using its low-cost Cardboard headsets and a free field-trip simulation software known as Expeditions. The search giant announced today that it's offering Expeditions, which comes with a box of headsets and software teachers can control from a tablet, free to schools who want to deploy it in the classroom, according to The New York Times. It is both a way for Google to further develop its do-it-yourself VR kit and also an opportunity to make Google products a fixture in education systems around the globe.
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| Google Jump Panoramic GoPro Camera Rig. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGCcEIUC18 Published May 28, 2015 |
<more at http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/28/9409571/google-expeditions-virtual-reality-field-trips; related links: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/technology/google-virtual-reality-system-aims-to-enliven-education.html?smid=tw-nytimestech&smtyp=cur&_r=1 (Google Virtual-Reality System Aims to Enliven Education. September 28, 2015) and http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/28/8673367/google-io-2015-gopro-3d-vr-cameras-360-degree (GoPro made a crazy 16-camera rig for Google Jump. May 28, 2015)>
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