You're not in a dream, but a game-based virtual field trip to the Whaleback anticline-an iconic exposure of folded rock in central Pennsylvania. The Whaleback anticline virtual experience created by researchers at the University of Washington is just one of several initiatives that interweave gaming and geosciences.
Read More"Escape Academy" is an adventure game about a student at the eponymous academy, which has a sprawling campus filled with environmental puzzles meant to train the next generation of escape room masters. Bushnell and Salyh first met in 2017 at Two Bit Circus, an amusement center in Los Angeles with arcade machines, carnival games and real-life escape rooms.
Read MoreAt the University of Utah's Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, "We are currently doing a number of really interesting projects ," says Benjamin Engel, a U of U virtual reality programmer who runs the day-to-day operations at EHSL. His projects include a trauma lead simulation where a patient comes in with a number of issues into the trauma bay and the participant plays the role of the head doctor who must direct everyone to save the patient.
Read MoreVirtual role-playing gives learners the possibility to interact with each other, as well as to be in each other's shoes, which is extremely important when a classroom is made up of people from varied multicultural backgrounds.
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