Skip to main content

Learn by doing: Unimersiv educates in virtual reality

Virtual reality is upon us. New apps are delivered on a regular basis, and it’s available commercially for both mobile and stationary hardware. If you’ve been paying attention, it’s also easy to see that the steady stream of content isn’t just made up of games, but other applications have been found as well, including virtual reality education. Unimersiv is one company focusing on education in virtual reality, and it’s just launched an application for the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. It is, despite its name, not striving to counteract immersion.

Unimersiv, a company focusing on bringing virtual education to the masses, believes teaching and learning can be as important to the platform as entertainment. It believes that VR education can bring a revolution to education. “As research has shown, students remember 20 percent of what they hear, 30 percent of what they see, and up to 90 percent of what they do or simulate. Virtual reality yields the latter scenario impeccably — students can interact with the virtual environment in person and manipulate the various objects within it. This supports ‘learning by doing’ and also results in creativity by constructionism.”

Recommended Videos

Previously, you had to go to to Universiv’s home page to take part in its educational experiences. But with the recent app launch, these experiences are now easy to find via the default stores for both headsets.

Today the app is available free of charge via the Oculus Store. It features three different takes on virtual education. The first gives you access to the International Space Station, where you can explore its innards. The second features a detailed human body to teach you about the human anatomy. Finally there’s a history lesson in the form of Wiltshire, England, and how it looked like 4,000 years ago. That’s where you’ll see Stonehenge and what it might have looked like originally.

Unimersiv’s website says the company plans to publish new educational experiences every month.

Dan Isacsson
Being a gamer since the age of three, Dan took an interest in mobile gaming back in 2009. Since then he's been digging ever…
Meta just accidentally revealed its next VR headset
An upscaled image of the Meta Quest 3S from the Quest Link app.

Newly leaked images of Meta's upcoming Quest 3S have surfaced online, including one found in an official Meta app. That leaves no room for doubt when it comes to how the upcoming Quest 3S will look.

If you have the Meta Quest Link app installed, you can see the image for yourself by searching for “oculus-link-hero-panther.png” in your computer’s program files. The image appeared online in a Reddit post by Gary_the_mememachine and was covered by UploadVR.

Read more
Meta may have canceled its high-end Apple Vision Pro competitor
The Meta Quest 3 and Quest Pro appear side-by-side.

According to a report from The Information citing two Meta employees, Meta has canceled its plans for a premium mixed-reality headset. It seems the company told Reality Lab employees to halt work on the product this week after executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reviewed the project.

It's uncertain whether the device was destined to be a sequel to the Meta Quest Pro or a completely new product, but it's clear that developing a competitor for the Apple Vision Pro was the purpose of the project.

Read more
Watch NASA astronauts use VR to ‘explore’ upcoming lunar space station
A NASA astronaut uses VR to explore the Lunar Gateway.

NASA has shared footage showing astronauts using VR headsets to learn what it will be like aboard the Lunar Gateway space station.

The Lunar Gateway will orbit the moon and be used mainly for getting astronauts and cargo to and from the lunar surface during the upcoming Artemis missions. It'll also be used as a space-based laboratory similar to how the International Space Station, which is in low-Earth orbit, operates today.

Read more