AR and VR in the Education sector

XR creative is an augmented reality and virtual reality enterprise that has been successful in providing AR, VR solutions to several industries/organizations. Having noticed the shortfalls in the education system, XR creative has come up with innovative and unique AR, VR solutions for schools, colleges, universities and research institute. We aim to provide cost effective and engaging AR, VR solutions to all.

Use cases of AR and VR in education sector

An app called dinosaur 4D+ already exists in the market. This app is for paleontologists to see dinosaurs in 3D and learn about them.
Elements 4D is a chemistry related app that allows students to make paper cubes from special elements, place them in front of the mobile phone camera to see the representation of the elements. Taking it step further, students can even try putting two elements together to see whether they react or not.
Google expedition is an app that offers virtual tours using AR and VR. This helps teachers and students to sit at the comfort of their classrooms and still be able to experience all the concepts practically. This is very helpful especially with subjects such as History, Geography and science. Students can visit Jallianwala bagh right from their classrooms and they can interact virtually with the active volcanoes present in some other part of the world.
Human anatomy atlas is a treasured find for the medical students. This app allows them to practice surgeries on virtual patients, teach anatomy and even conduct other researches.

Education sector is a sector that expects a lot of creativity and adaptation to new technologies. The education sector varies according to the place but, there are some obstacles that all the educational organizations face in general. They are as follows:

Lack of interest from the students: It is a well known fact that most students lack focus in class. Very few students actually pay attention to what is being said in class. This is because, it is very difficult for a human being to sit and only listen to what is being said by another person.
Shortage of funds to invest on creative teaching aids: Most of the schools face a lack of funds when it comes to buying creative aids for teaching purposes. Hence, they are not able to move on to newer teaching methods and are stuck with the same old ways of teaching.
Communication gap: While most of the students are trained well to explain things neatly to a student, students fail to understand a lot of concepts when it is explained to them because they are not able to visualize these concepts nor does the institution have the resources to show these concepts practically to the students.
No space for hands on training methods: Most of the educational institutions lack the infrastructure to provide hands on training sessions to the students. Hence, the retention capacity of the students is also low.

Having discussed the problems, now let’s take a look at the solutions that can be offered.

Students can be made more interested in the subject by introducing more interesting methods of teaching such as introducing augmented reality and Virtual reality in the classroom session like a school in Kerala did recently, while the teacher was holding online classes for the kinder garden students. The teacher made animals such as elephant and monkey come alive near her through augmented reality. This excited the children so much that they started looking forward to attend classes.
Augmented and Virtual reality are technologies that require only one time investment and that investment too comes at a very reasonable price and, if a school has AR and VR, they need not worry about buying any other creative teaching aids.
The teacher student communication gap can be bridged by having interactive classes with AR and VR. Students will tend to understand concepts better when they have experienced it live in classes.
These technologies also do not need physical space like laboratories. Be it a biology practical class or a chemistry lab session, it can all be done in the classroom itself virtually.

How can XR Creative help an educational institution?

If you are an educational institution looking forward to enhance your teaching methods or, take teaching to the next level then, we have tailor-made AR, VR solutions for you.