The team behind Daydream, Google's mobile VR platform, is currently conducting experiments with the aim of broadening virtual reality's usecase to include more interactive learning. With an experimental VR espresso maker at the ready, the team says "people learned faster and better in...

The BBC's newest VR documentary, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, today launched on Gear VR and Oculus Rift. The 13-minute documentary takes you through one man's memories on a journey back to a defining moment in Irish history, the armed...

Google's overarching mission is to organize all of the world's information, and so it's a natural fit for the company to be one of the leading innovators for using VR for immersive education. Google Expeditions was born out of...

I Expect You to Die developer Schell Games have released a trailer for their latest project SuperChem VR, an incredibly fun looking way to teach chemistry and perhaps a glimpse into the potential future for VR in education. We've seen...

Education is widely expected to be an area where AR and VR will see major play, but we can't start at zero and immediately arrive at a world of immersive, transformed education. It takes stepping stones. MyLab is one such...

Got an idea for how virtual reality could revolutionize education? The White House suggests six ways you could get funding to make it a reality. Education is one of the most obvious use-cases for VR; its ability to immerse and...

The concept of embodied cognition is a hot topic within immersive education circles, and was a featured topic at during the Embodied Learning educational workshop that happened at the IEEE VR academic conference. Embodied Learning could help revolutionize education...

Cerevrum is building an ambitious educational platform starting with training people to become better public speakers with Speech Center VR. The basic mechanic is that you stand in a variety of different virtual rooms in front of an animated crowd...

The producer behind First, Jonah Hirsch, is turning his attention toward another historical VR encounter with Anne. As a child doing my school-assigned reading of The Diary of a Young Girl, I drew upon the words of Anne Frank's diary to picture what...

Tom Furness has been working in virtual reality longer than anyone else on the planet, and he's starting a new phase of his legendary career: building a coalition of content creators and financial backers through the Virtual World Society...

One of the most compelling applications of VR will be the educational experiences that will be possible, and David Whelan's Immersive VR Education has been making some big innovations in this space. They've created the VR documentary about the...

The race to explore the wide open frontier of virtual reality attracts all types. Game designers, filmmakers, and theatre artists are all trying their hands at crafting entertainment of all sorts. We've also seen journalists develop new ways of...

NASA has partnered with FUSION, a multi-platform media company owned by Disney-ABC Television Group and Univision, to produce a virtual reality experience that aims to simulate life as one of the first astronauts to arrive on Mars. As part of ongoing efforts to build...

Epic, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, has released the fourth part of it's series of films looking at virtual reality technology and the industry. It's been an interestingly positive journey thus far and this latest instalment focuses...

VR creators Kite and Lightning, the minds behind the dazzling Senza Peso amongst many others, have released their latest experience named 'GE Neuro', dubbed by the team as a "...portal into the human brain, allowing viewers to enter, view, and explore...