The ViLeArn team of the University of Würzburg (from left): Marc Erich Latoschik, Silke Grafe, Florian Kern, Gabriela Greger and Peter Kullmann. Jennifer Tiede is missing. (Image: Robert Emmerich / Universität Würzburg)
People meet in Virtual Realities to work, to train, to talk from avatar to avatar without traveling, or just to be entertained. Can this Social-VR also successfully be used in university teaching? Würzburg students of teacher training who like to try something new can look forward to the coming semesters. They will have the chance to try-out ViLeArn, a recently developed social-VR platform targeting virtual embodied teaching, during one of their seminars. ViLeArn allows students to dive into fully equipped virtual teaching environments of flexible layouts which give ample room for various teaching scenarios to try out novel teaching approaches together. The topic of the seminar itself is a perfect fit: It promotes competences in digital media. Experience Virtual Reality (VR) together: This is called "social VR" and it currently is a hot topic discussed, developed and researched in various contexts, from working life to the leisure and entertainment sector. People put on VR glasses to remotely work together on designs and engines, to train themselves or to support others in difficult operations, or to meet via the Internet to chat in virtual cafés or share adventures in fantastic game worlds and many more.
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