Earlier this year we visited a primary school in county Offaly to see the MissionV Virtual Reality Programme for Schools in action, as children used the Oculus Rift VR Headset to immerse themselves in a recreation of historic Clonmacnoise which they had built themselves. The resulting video was our biggest hit on Technology.ie, clocking up over 10,000 views […]
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VR Version of Joyce’s Ulysses Hits Crowdfunding Target
James Joyce wrote a novel which broke established conventions and broke new ground for literature – or so I’ve heard. But if Joyce had had today’s range of multimedia to choose from, would he have been content with prose alone? The question is moot, but with the expiry of Joyce’s copyright in 2012, the way has been opened […]
Irish Kids create a Virtual Reality, then explore it using Oculus Rift [Video]
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 […]