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This is one of the most exciting videos I’ve seen about Oculus Rift, and it’s a Technology.ie exclusive! MissionV is a virtual reality platform for teaching and training which is currently beta-testing in 11 Irish schools. Recently, its founder James Corbett brought me to visit one of those schools: St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly. The kids there are expert users of MissionV, which uses OpenSimulator, the open source version of Linden Labs Second Life, running on a secure closed server, with access fully controlled by their teacher. Normally they use a desktop client, keyboard and mouse to build and explore their virtual world, but today James has brought something different: the Oculus Rift VR headset.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/p30VmcmHOjE[/youtube]Virtual Reality is cool – sure! And Oculus has generated a lot of speculation since its acquisition by Facebook last month. But what’s really cool is that these 10 – 12 year olds learned 3D modelling and scripting, raided the web for textures and images, and recreated a historic site after a field-trip to Clonmacnoise.
School principal Esther Lambe says the students are eager and excited about the project, queuing outside the classroom door in the morning. The learning covers mathematics and computer programming, literacy and project management, history, archaeology and design. It is accelerated by the fun they are having. It is collaborative and self-directed:
Somebody finds a solution to a problem, and then they tell everybody else.
MissionV CEO James Corbett says the kids’ reaction to the Oculus headset was a revelation:
“The children spent two weeks building the model and were intimately familiar with the layout of site and buildings, as they appeared on the PC monitor. But the full realisation of the scale and perspective of what they had built only dawned on them when they were immersed in its reality.”
MissionV will open for all schools from September 2014.
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New Video: These Irish kids created a virtual Clonmacnoise, and then walked into it with an Oculus VR headset! http://t.co/zm4vXGlnzM
RT @conn: New Video: These Irish kids created a virtual Clonmacnoise, and then walked into it with an Oculus VR headset! http://t.co/zm4vXG…
MT @conn: New Video: Irish kids create a virtual Clonmacnoise, then walked into it with an Oculus headset! http://t.co/plt7fksX0l < cool :)
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RT @blacknight: Irish Kids create Virtual World, then explore it using Oculus Rift [Video]: http://t.co/kKlta4lu0B – a Technology.ie exclu…
RT @blacknight: Irish Kids create Virtual World, then explore it using Oculus Rift [Video]: http://t.co/kKlta4lu0B – a Technology.ie exclu…
RT @CloudyStarLtd: Great review about @MissionVHQ @eirepreneur virtual reality platform used in schools
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@alanmaguire this is the video I mentioned at the US Embassy event; school kids exploring their own virtual reality http://t.co/eNuvHpPdkp
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@janeruffino you might like the new video of Irish school kids exploring their own virtual reality with Oculus Rift – http://t.co/eNuvHpPdkp
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Children get excited about history with Oculus virtual reality. http://t.co/x27KCkReXR
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I really like this,, Incredible potential, Truely Incredible… http://t.co/iMLAFXgYAJ #Virtual #Oculus #EndlessOpportunities
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Education in virtual worlds, inspiring and about time! > http://t.co/y8z4YBdSky via @conn @blacknight #education #sl #imprudence #opensim
@conn @blacknight Love this! Thanks for sharing.
@hassandabbagh don’t mind your auld Google Glass – Oculus Rift is much more exciting :D http://t.co/2mdqbbKq5W
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Irish kids use Oculus Rift to step into their own game designs http://t.co/B8CvWGCtJs
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Thank you SO much for this story, I had to write about it;
Children using opensim VR and Rift to learn about history, education supreme, read and see videos; http://joyardley.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/vrschool/
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Irish school children are building virtual worlds for the Oculus Rift http://t.co/McYUCyhxyL #nlproc
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Nifty, Oculus Rift use as part of school project.
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Une école irlandaise qui utilise Oculus Rift pour un projet d’histoire. http://t.co/vqSM4oKkEH
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Charlotte Latin School Becomes 1st in US to Use Oculus Rift http://t.co/lACbcgwdB0 <- catching up on Irish schools ;) http://t.co/2mdqbbsgRO
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