The Application of Virtual Reality in Education
Wenhao Gu · DEStech Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering · 2017
VR, virtual reality technology, is quite popular these days. Virtual realities artificially create sensory experience, which can include sight, touch, hearing, and smell. It has had a profound impact on education, changed some of the past teaching ideas and teaching models. This paper summarizes the advantages of virtual reality technology in teaching and its application in school education, discusses the problems of virtual reality in education and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures. Our research shows that with the guidance of modern teaching theory, virtual reality can make the learners learn actively and happily and improve the teaching efficiency.