Playing with Virtual Reality
I was lucky enough to be able to borrow a Meta Quest 2 headset from the tech integrationist at our high school. He gave me a quick introductory lesson on how to use it. He walked me through the menus and showed me how to exit out of the different apps. He explained to me that I was getting the full menu of what is available, while a student would only see the space that he had assigned them to be. He explained that the accounts he has are generic school accounts and not linked to any student's personal information. I was reassured to know that privacy and security for students does not need to be a concern. This morning, I set aside a couple hours to "play". Since I forgot the charger at school, a couple hours was all that I could do. I had the chance to try out quite a few of the apps. I was looking for the apps that would be most useful to me in a classroom. I explored one travel app, thinking that a virtual field trip would be fun. I was not as impressed as I expecte...