The Role Of Virtual Reality In Education

Abstract—The evolution of the technology takes the education to next level, where it makes the learning process more attractive and interesting. The Virtual Reality plays an important role in this evolution. The main aim of this work is to enhance the learning ability in students through virtual environment by developing an education based game. In this work, the virtual reality device-Wiimote has been used for the learning process, and also for answering the questions in the different levels of game. The learning process also involves the speech synthesis. This helps the blind people to learn without others help and it also motivates even the average students to participate more actively in learning process. The game has been further divided

The use of this method in the field of natural science and technology has increasingly been the object of study in recent years. Learning through digital games not only increase motivation, active learning, and provide individual learning opportunities, but also reduces the learning pressure of learners. Virtual Reality (VR) is a powerful and more promising tool in education because their unique technological characteristics differentiate them from other applications. Virtual reality is basically characterized by three ideas, which include the immersion, interaction and imagination. All these three factors permit the individual to participatemore activelyin the learning processwithout any distractions.VRdevices are not only used for games and education, but also for the training process, which reduces the cost of equipments and also avoids the wastage of the products. VR devices are mostly used in military and medical training. In the medical field, when the training has to be given for the individuals in the field of biological cell injection. Then it involves more wastage of cells, because of the restrictions of the cells, where one cell cannot be used for another time, and also all the equipments used for these training are more costly. So, when the training is given for the individuals under the virtual

Initially the wiimote is connected to the laptop, using the Bluetooth. When the wiimote gets paired with the laptop, with the Glovepie, it has been converted as a mouse. Here the Wiimote has been used as the mouse, for selecting the objects in the virtual environment. This makes the students to actively involve in the learning process.

CASE STUDY

ACID RAIN

Fig a: Explanation of Acid Rain through picture In order to explain the concepts of acid rain, initially the student is allowed to burn the fossil fuel such as coal in the virtual world, with the help of the wiimote, just by selecting it. When this burns, the student experiences the vibrating effect in their hand, which is produced by the wiimote, so when burning the coal, it releases the sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air. These substances can rise very high into the atmosphere, where they mix and react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form more acidic pollutants, known as acid rain. All these contents which has been given in the text, where it will be converted as speech during the learning process. Thus the student receives the speech as the output.

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