Virtual reality Content

Understanding How Students Learn Through Virtual Reality

Jocelyn C Anderson — March 25, 2024 - 9:02am

How �� virtual reality research is promoting STEAM learning and helping improve child education.

Using Virtual Reality to Identify Brain Areas Involved in Memory

Andy Fell — January 25, 2018 - 9:50pm

Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, get new insight into how different brain areas assemble memories in context. In a study published Jan. 18 in the journal Nature Communications, graduate student Halle Dimsdale-Zucker and colleagues used a virtual reality environment to train subjects, then showed that different areas of the hippocampus are activated for different types of memories.

KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets

Andy Fell — January 25, 2017 - 4:57pm

Virtual reality software used by scientists at the University of California, Davis, to study everything from earthquakes to molecular biology in a 3-D “cave” can now run on some off-the-shelf gaming VR headsets. Instructions and downloads are available online.

For more than 10 years, the Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES) at �� has allowed researchers to build 3-D, interactive models of places they cannot visit in reality.