Virtual reality might be the next big thing in Chinese classrooms
 

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.*

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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...

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