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08-11-2016, 01:10 AM
Virtual reality might be the next big thing in Chinese classrooms
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Deep within a building shaped like the Starship Enterprise, a little-k**wn Chinese company is working on the future of education.*
Vast banks of servers record children at work and play, tracking touchscreen swipes, shrugs and head swivels — amassing a database that will be used to build intimate profiles of millions of kids.*
This is the Fuzhou hive of NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a*hack-and-slash video game maker and unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.*
SEE ALSO: I just drove 8 hours on Tesla autopilot and lived to tell the tale (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/i-just-drove-8-hours-on-tesla-autopilot-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale?cmpid=mashable)
It’s one of a growing number of companies from IBM to Le**vo*studying how to use tech**logy like VR to arrest a fickle child’s attention (and perhaps someday*to make a mint from that data by showing them ads.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/china-vr-education/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Deep within a building shaped like the Starship Enterprise, a little-k**wn Chinese company is working on the future of education.*
Vast banks of servers record children at work and play, tracking touchscreen swipes, shrugs and head swivels — amassing a database that will be used to build intimate profiles of millions of kids.*
This is the Fuzhou hive of NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a*hack-and-slash video game maker and unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.*
SEE ALSO: I just drove 8 hours on Tesla autopilot and lived to tell the tale (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/i-just-drove-8-hours-on-tesla-autopilot-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale?cmpid=mashable)
It’s one of a growing number of companies from IBM to Le**vo*studying how to use tech**logy like VR to arrest a fickle child’s attention (and perhaps someday*to make a mint from that data by showing them ads.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/china-vr-education/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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