Samsung Virtual Shool Suitcase: an immersive learning model, multi-user and multidisciplinary

This solution, based on virtual reality technology and developed together with the specialist inMediaStudio, offers a differential experience in training students to assimilate content, observe and interact with the elements and motivation, all of this supervised by the teacher.

Punctual in your appointment with SIMO Education (in this edition 2016 with a much larger and better located stand in the pavilion 12 of Ifema) Samsung was one of the first manufacturers to show its technological proposal for this environment on the first day of the contest, focused on immersive learning solution Virtual School Suitcase.

“Virtual reality opens up many opportunities in the educational field, both for the motivation it produces in students and for the help it offers to assimilate and fix contents in learning, and everything under the control of the teacher”, explains David Alonso, B2B area of ​​Samsung Spain.

Developed in collaboration with the virtual reality software specialist inMediaStudio, Samsung Virtual School Suitcase solution offers an immersive learning educational model (inmersive learning) based on multi-user experience, with multidisciplinary virtual content and supervised by the teacher at all times.

For this, Each student uses Gear VR glasses from this manufacturer, with which they can observe, explore and interact with the items displayed; a WiFi access point; the virtual reality content application that is displayed on these devices, which also monitors the process and provides learning data in real time developed by inMediaStudio, as well as a Samsung tablet from which the teacher controls this “more immersive” learning., participatory and emotional”, Alonso assures.

The contents shown “have been adapted to the different educational stages and current curricular contents.”, in a project that we have developed in collaboration with teachers and experts, and there are already Spanish schools that are putting them into practice successfully, since the teacher can move the classroom to get to know the seabed virtually and in an immersive way; ancient egypt,…”, Jesús Martín points out, education manager at Samsung Spain.

Specifically, the company shows at SIMO Education 2016 a first prototype in which students immerse themselves in secondary school curricular content about the marine world.

As explained by inMediaStudio, “we have developed microcontents, about fifteen minutes long, with this prototype, that are a complement to the curricular discipline. Through an app, “The teacher can control this immersive experience from a tablet and obtain data from each student in real time to evaluate them and assist them in their learning.”.

Regarding hardware, The system has sensors to offer a more fluid experience, with a wide field of vision, lower latency and more durability, whose core is a premium Samsung Galaxy smartphone with Super Amoled screen.