Virtual reality is becoming more prominent as the mediums; Oculus rift, Vive and Windows Mixed Reality become less expensive, reaching to a wider market. With All the new people playing VR (Virtual Reality) there is a increasing demand for content on the VR platform. Drawing the creative minds of the world to create new and wonderful things. Not only will Awesome and amazing art be created, but productive applications such as virtual classrooms and business meetings.
In the future I see classrooms not being held in a classroom. Instead I see each student at the comfort of their home participating in class without having to worry about a commute to school or their parents forgetting to pick them up from school. VR will help kids with conditions such as ADHD(Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) by allowing the student to move around and interact with the environment the teacher has created. Virtual Reality allows people to go to places that they wouldn’t be able to go ordinarily. A classroom can go to mars or walk with the dinosaurs, creating a hands on approach to learning what was once only studied using books and imagination. (1) Studies have shown that a hands on approach to learning increases the abilities of students by 20% while also increasing motivation. Virtual reality is not only applicable to children’s education, but to college or university education as well. Having such a good visual aid while teaching is simply the best way to teach in the future.
With the ability to travel at the speed of the internet, any sort of meeting becomes easy and cost effective. Business and community meetings in the future will be conducted in VR for this very reason. For a business, being able to connect to every branch of your operation no matter where they are in the world is very important. Companies have meeting requiring visuals, showing things like graphs, and pictures of a current project. Usually you would have to call people to a meeting room for this, sometimes having people take plane flights or very long commutes by car. These can be potentially dangerous and costly, which is why companys will choose VR as the new way to have meetings.
The future of VR is its implementation into professional environments due to its practicality and the ability to reduce costs. Businesses and schools of all ranges can be improved with the use of VR. Please let me know what you think about this, Thanks!
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https://educationassociates.com/case-for-hands-on-learning/
VR in the Future 
Very true! I agree that classrooms are moving more and more to technologically focussed mediums, even in my own experience from grade school. In my classes now, a lot of the lectures and materials are distributed digitally and can be completed as fast or as slow as the student wants, and this seems to be an indication of this move to VR.
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I agree 100%, it will be very interesting to see where it goes in the coming years
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I agree that VR will be extremely useful in the future. However, much like with any digital device there comes distractions. Any kid would choose to travel space over having to do math, or any subject that they dislike really. But before we are to deal with that problem. We also have to first deal with actually getting such technologies for students. Many schools don’t have very large budgets, most having to use books that fall apart just by holding it, or old computers with outdated programs. So to get VR for every student in every school, if it is to ever happen, it will be costly and could cause budget cuts for other programs, or for even the staff. But there is also the alternative, were students have to pay for the VR headsets. Which won’t guarantee that all students will get one since not all families can afford one. So even though it’s a wonderful thought to have VR for schools. It’s something that really needs to be thought through properly before being implemented so that no one will be left out, or get distracted from their classes and so that the staff of the schools, or programs don’t suffer either.
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I agree completely, I think that VR platforms have helped hundreds of people. Mostly with their social issues. Using VR for business and school may sound absurd, but it is honestly a fantastic idea, especially since not every school can provide transport and parents can’t always take their children to school. I would love to see something like this in the future!
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Virtual reality opens many new doors, as you mentioned schools and businesses would really benefit from such technology; yet, here I am thinking about something totally different, with VR being widely used, what will define reality anymore, it would be stretched to the point that it can become our doom. Imagine living in a “reality” that you have created with its own physics and rules where you are the one in control. It might feel like being a God, with all of that in your created “reality”, why would you go back to reality anymore, would it feel real at that point, which reality is the one for you. From this perspective, reality could easily connect us, but I’m afraid it might disconnect us from our reality, community, even from our own families.
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