World leading virtual reality teaching facility opens at the University of Nottingham

Posted on 12 Feb 2024 by The Manufacturer
University of Nottingham Product Design and Manufacture students trying out the new virtual reality (VR) classroom in the university's Engineering Science and Learning Centre
University of Nottingham Product Design and Manufacture students trying out the new virtual reality (VR) classroom in the university's Engineering Science and Learning Centre

This year’s cohort of second year Product Design and Manufacture students at the University of Nottingham are the first in the country to benefit from a brand-new virtual reality (VR) classroom that revolutionises the teaching of VR software.

Based in the university’s Engineering Science and Learning Centre (ESLC), the classroom enables remote viewing and communication between lecturers and students in a way that’s never been done before. Containing 40, high image quality VR headsets, 35 of which are tethered overhead to individual high-power PCs with the remaining five consisting of more traditional desk-based…

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