Can virtual reality play a role in veterinary education? Researchers think so
You're a fourth-year veterinary student, and it's Day 2 of your emergency clinic rotation.
You're a fourth-year veterinary student, and it's Day 2 of your emergency clinic rotation.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 6, 2022
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Computer games are an effective way to teach ecological issues and build pro-environment policy support, according to published research by an interdisciplinary group of Penn State scholars.
Environment
Oct 12, 2022
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Way before COVID, in 2005 the World of Warcraft game developers accidentally introduced an extremely virulent highly contagious disease into this game which then spread to infect the whole fantasy world and caused a virtual ...
Other
Aug 23, 2022
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A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers ...
In 2015, well before the first iteration of r/place—a celebration of the collaborative chaos of online spaces—Reddit ran another curious experiment called r/thebutton.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2022
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When some European elite football leagues returned to action last year amidst the pandemic, athletes played largely without crowds. These so-called ghost games offered researchers a rare opportunity to get into the heads ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2021
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Virtual worlds may reflect social and economic behavior in the real world, according to a study published October 21, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andres M. Belaza and colleagues from Ghent University, Belgium.
Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2020
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To prevent the spread of COVID-19, many universities canceled classes or held them online this spring—a change likely to continue for many this fall. As a result, hands-on chemistry labs are no longer accessible to undergraduate ...
Education
Aug 12, 2020
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Students who used immersive virtual reality (VR) did not learn significantly better than those who used two more traditional forms of learning, but they vastly preferred the VR to computer-simulated and hands-on methods, ...
Education
Mar 25, 2020
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Before they can get started at their field site—a giant cave studded with stalactites, stalagmites and human artifacts—15 undergraduate students must figure out how to use their virtual hands and tools. They also must ...
Archaeology
Jan 29, 2020
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