A pilot program will send VR headsets to schools, libraries and museums to see how they can be used to aid education. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since ...

Virtual reality technology like Oculus Rift has huge implications in the field of education, creator Palmer Luckey said today as part of a White House Google Hangout. Luckey said the way in which ...

Oculus recently announced the’ll be expanding their educational pilot program by donating Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets to a number of educational institutions across Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle.

“Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face, just by putting on goggles in your home.” ...

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Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Detailed on the Oculus Blog, the ...

Before computers became a thing everyone owned, they were in libraries, allowing folks easy and free access to a whole new, important technology. And now it looks like Oculus is going to borrow that ...

Barbara Mikolajczak is an information technology professor at Boston College who teaches a 4 th to 6 th grade after-school “immersive education” class in which virtual reality, game-based learning and ...

Oculus has recently announced that the VR firm will provide 100 Oculus Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs to 90 libraries across the state of California. The installation of Oculus devices in public libraries ...

After decades of false starts and unkept promises, makers of virtual-reality technology could soon be ready to give students a new and potentially powerful way to learn. In March, the social-media ...

Facebook’s Oculus division said it will donate 100 Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets and the PCs to go with them to 90 libraries in California. The pilot program with the California State Library ...