Morehouse College Starts VR Classes With VictoryXR 2023-03-19, 2:13 PM

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Morehouse College Starts VR

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Mar 9, 2021, 09:00am EST

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Morehouse College is teaching three classes in VR using the

Victory XR platform (based on Engage), with support from
Qualcomm, which provided an Oculus Quest 2 to students. The
Quest utilizes the Qualcomm’s XR2 chip set, as does every other
mobile VR headset with the exception of Magic Leap (for now).
Using this headset, remote students meet on a virtual Morehouse
campus to attend their virtual classes.

VictoryXR has created over 240 VR & AR experiences covering

over fifty different learning units such as anatomy, molecular
biology, astronomy, paleontology, ancient history, and rooms for
other immersive learning. Using the Engage platform from VR

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Education Holdings, Victory XR provides classrooms, 3D VR

objects, and professional development for educators. 

The Morehouse College campus in VictoryXR. VICOTRYXR

Morehouse College, the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr.,

Spike Lee, and Senator Raphael Warnock, offers two classes in
VR this spring. The first three classes to be taught on the digital
twin VR campus will be Biology 105 focusing on men’s health,
taught by Dr. Ethell Vereen, History 112, world history, taught by
Dr. Ovell Hamilton, and inorganic chemistry with Dr Musinah
Morris. The professors gave the press a demonstration last Friday
that illustrated the many creative tools VR offers.

Dr. Vereen showed how students will construct models of

molecules in VR, just as they would with real models in the

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physical world. And Dr. Hamilton created a creative new way to

use teleportation and scale to illustrate the position of Napoleon’s
troops in Russia. “Higher ed must not be afraid to take remote
learning to a more immersive and effective level,” said Dr.
Hamilton. “With this virtual reality campus, students will be able
to travel back in time and stand on a Naval carrier or travel to
places across the globe.”

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Students can walk through their digitized campus, collaborate on

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projects with peers in real-time inside of a shared, persistent

space, using Quest 2 headsets provided by Qualcomm. “With the
increasing amount of technology that is occurring in education,
people have to learn and teach in a different way, they have to be
innovative. The discovery of Victory XR was the dimension I had
been looking to add to Morehouse College for the last two years.
This is a game changer not only for Morehouse College, but for
colleges and universities around the world,” said Dushunte
Carmon, the project’s chief advocate within Morehouse College.

Steve Grubbs, founder and CEO of VictoryXR, said “This

partnership gives the rest of the academic world a glimpse into
the future of education. These classes will be surprisingly close to
those imagined in the book, Ready Player One.”

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