{"id":55882,"date":"2016-06-27T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=55882"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:35:14","slug":"the-top-10-companies-working-on-education-in-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/06\/27\/the-top-10-companies-working-on-education-in-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 10 companies working on education in virtual reality &#038; augmented reality [Lewis]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/touchstoneresearch.com\/the-top-10-companies-working-on-education-in-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The top 10 companies working on education in virtual reality &amp; augmented reality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from touchstoneresearch.com by Drew Lewis<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are new technologies which have been making all kinds of waves recently; but VR and AR are not only going to be used for gaming, several companies are exploring applications for VR and AR to be used in education. Around 90% of what we see and do is retained, which is something that has always been missing from education; students do not retain as much information if they are just reading a textbook compared to having more real applications of what they\u2019re learning. Which is why VR and AR in education are so beneficial; these technologies engage students in a completely new way which is more fun and engaging for them, and it increases retention. Several companies are currently working on innovations in this space; and the work we\u2019ve seen so far is surely a good sign of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top 10 companies working on education in virtual reality &amp; augmented reality &#8212; from touchstoneresearch.com by Drew Lewis Excerpt: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are new technologies which have been making all kinds of waves recently; but VR and AR are not only going to be used for gaming, several companies are exploring applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,224,32,210,7,367,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-augmented-reality","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-learning-ecosystem","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55883,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882\/revisions\/55883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}