Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps is introducing a Gemini-powered conversational “Ask Maps” feature along with an updated “Immersive Navigation” experience that brings a 3D view, road details, natural voice guidance, and more to the app.
The new “Ask Maps” feature lets users ask complex, real-world questions using natural language, such as “My phone is dying, where can I charge it…
Finding the right “Leveraging Technology: Best Practices for Implementing Virtual Reality in Classroom Learning” service shouldn’t feel like a gamble. Yet too often, it does. You read reviews, compare prices, and still wonder: will they actually deliver what they promise?
Quick Answer
Implementing virtual reality (VR) in classrooms effectively requires careful selection of age-appropriate hardware and software, integrating VR experiences aligned with learning objectives, and providing adequate teacher training. Best practices emphasize blending VR with traditional teaching methods to boost engagement and enhance comprehension.
Understanding VR in Education: What It Means to Leverage Technology
Leveraging technology by implementing virtual reality in classroom learning refers to the strategic use of immersive VR tools and applications to enrich educational content, making learning more interactive and memorable.
This approach goes beyond just using new gadgets; it involves thoughtfully designing curricula that harness VR’s unique ability to simulate real-world environments and abstract concepts.
For example, VR can transport students to ancient civilizations in history lessons or create virtual labs in science classes without the risks or costs of physical equipment. This versatility makes it a powerful tool, especially when combined with frameworks like
social-emotional learning (SEL)
, which enhances student interaction and empathy through immersive experiences.
Best Practices for Implementing VR in Classroom Learning
Start with clear learning goals:
Choose VR content that aligns tightly with curriculum standards and measurable outcomes. Avoid using VR just because it’s new or exciting.
Select appropriate hardware and software:
For most classrooms, standalone VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 balance affordability, ease of use, and content variety. Software platforms should offer educator-friendly controls and analytics to track student progress.
Ensure accessibility and inclusivity:
Not every student may be comfortable or able to use VR devices. Provide alternatives and accommodate different learning styles.
Train educators thoroughly:
Teachers need hands-on workshops to incorporate VR effectively, troubleshoot technical issues, and integrate VR lessons with traditional assessments.
Blend VR with other instructional methods:
Use VR to supplement—not replace—classroom interactions, discussions, and reflections. This hybrid approach maximizes engagement and knowledge retention.
My gift for Telly Leung to thank him for giving me the courage to get my vocal cord surgery by sharing his story. I’m gonna give it to him on Tuesday night - the night before my vocal cord surgery. Hand painted on canvas using acrylic paint/acrylic markers.
Snippets of an experimental transcript written in collaboration with Nemo Lovelace. Sounds taken from Mutate Collective’s Wildlands immersive experience at UGLY DUCK, 2023.
The documentary form is often thought to be governed by a manageable feature-length high concept: the story of a person, an institution, an historical episode. The subject itself and the film’s attitude towards it, its editorial slant, are habitually plain enough and the procedure is metonymic: the camera focuses on a part, and the whole is illuminated by implication. Often they have a sexed-up,…
‘sunken cities’ (audio extract: Cignol – Sunken Cities)
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“The screen is no longer a window, but a membrane through which we enter the intimacy of calculated spaces, or rather, to be more accurate, their horror.”
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The audio industry has spent the last decade telling us that stereo is finished. Not adequate, not limited—finished. The future, we’re assured, is immersive: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Auro-3D, arrays of speakers climbing your walls and colonising your ceiling, object-based audio that places sounds in three-dimensional space with pinpoint precision. The message is relentless and nearly uniform: if…
Immersion is a marketing problem disguised as an audio solution
🚨 Fresh News: Austin museum unveils immersive prehistoric showcase with fossils discovered within the house
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The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a big improve to its basement showcase, reworking it into an immersive prehistoric international stuffed with new lighting fixtures, sound, animations and interactive options. Visitors can discover Texas…
Austin museum unveils immersive prehistoric showcase with fossils discovered within the house
It’s still under construction but slowly starting to come together. Started november 2025.
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In this video, I take you along on a full video tour of PARLIAMENT: The Immersive Experience, one of the most unique and meaningful things to do in Canada’s capital.
This free interactive experience brings Canada’s parliamentary history to life through stunning visuals, storytelling, and immersive rooms — and I was genuinely impressed by how engaging it is. From start to finish, it’s educational, inspiring, and perfect for visitors of all ages.
👉 Important tip: Admission is FREE, but you must pre-book a time slot online in advance.
🎟️ Reserve your time slot here: https://visit.parl.ca/sites/Visit/default/en_CA/immersive
Whether you’re a first-time visitor to Ottawa or a local looking for something new, this immersive Parliament tour is absolutely worth adding to your itinerary!
Solo exhibition of total art.
Espace ContreContre, Switzerland, 2025.
An immersive installation bringing together the film « Tout Doit Disparaître », projected on a giant cathode-ray television, along with painting, textile art, music, performances, and other elements.
You know one of the things I wish they would do more in RPGs in particular the fantasy ones? Something that I don’t think I’ve seen done since the first dragon age game where they split the money into bronze silver and gold. It just makes more sense than having a piece of bread be five freaking gold. And it can’t be that much extra effort to implement. At least if you do it from the start.
How about using the minigun for flight?
I just added a bit more recoil, and now the light character can fly. O.o.
Should I leave it as is?
clearly not, since marketing a product or service for its immersive quality would only work if the potential customers were not immersed (or were immersed elsewhere albeit unintentionally).
i truly miss immersion. a long 6 hour session of reorganising an entire bookshelf or a kitchen that leaves you hungry and nearly blacked out would sort out so much of the tangled wool in my head. alas, there is more of an incentive to move on than there is in stayin and immersing oneself.
its a hard thing to do truly, immersing oneself.
take for example: a notary officer’s day at his job. the preparation is taking a bath and eating his breakfast. commuting to karkarduma court on a grey activa with his moustache bristling in the cold air. it is cold. he is prepared. the tea boy returns with tea and some fresh goss. notary saab is ready, register open and stamp wet. there’s a whole environment that follows and evolves around the commitment of being mr notary: shuffling of non-punctual lawyers along the mostly encroached upon corridors, nervous clientele clearly in the court for the first time, jaded faces that have been spending far too long in the court complex than they had come to expect. do you see the flow? the vibrancy, the scenery and the tilled soil. this is immersion. now he must snap out of it lest be drained of energy. he closes his registers, locks his drawer, gives tidings to colleagues and others and rides the activa into the next immersive experience. if only it felt good everyday.
an escape! an anomaly, a break to help him swallow normalcy down. alcohol helps him rebuke control, immerse himself in his feelings and instincts without hesitation. a constant stream of media on his phone lets him explore stimulation he would never experience, never in the court by any measure. is the immersion of normalcy intact? or has it been broken?
probably bubbled in. there’s sub-environments to be immersed in, widely different from what is proximate to him. but where are three steps? they seemed pretty important. i, personally, really enjoyed writing those steps down earlier because it made me remember – from the perspective of an outsider – how that environment felt. but with these bubbles no, there is no real immersion. we dont have time for real things.
i will harp about it once more, less is more. i dont understand the point of a 6 day trip in europe. i dont understand spending as little time as possible to get as much experience as possible. where is the time to reflect? why are you in a rush. experiences are nothing in of themselves, your takeaways are what matter most. otherwise the experience is just an ointment that washes off the wound as soon as it rains.
