UniVirtual Academy

Our CEO, Alex Stolyarik, brings Univirtual Academy VR to Stanford to teach ME269 - Designing Learning and Making Environments.🚀 Teacher students will design and build learning experiences and test them with middle school students from the US and China. We will post their creations on our social media every week. Stay tuned.📲

Apple‘s ambitious mixed reality headset will hit stores next month. 🎉

The tech giant said Monday that the Apple Vision Pro will launch on Feb. 2, with preorders opening on Jan. 19.

The headset starts at $3,499 and marks the company's biggest product launch since the original iPhone went on sale in 2007.

The Vision Pro uses virtual and augmented reality and two displays "with more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye," merging the user's digital experience and their surrounding environment for more immersive work, education, and entertainment. 👍

Happy New Year from all of us at UniVirtual Academy! Here's to a year filled with fun, learning, and amazing VR adventures for kids! 🎉🌟

We’re excited to announce our collaboration with Create and Learn, a global online platform for STEM education. 🎓💪

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, Virtual Reality emerges as a new medium for education.

Our founder Alex Stolyarik, Stanford AI Robotics and Education Lab expert, recently led a class to demonstrate emerging VR pedagogy in action.🚀🔝 Students had the chance to explore VR's fascinating game-based education capabilities.🎉👩‍🔬🎉

Interested in experiencing this for yourself? Leave a comment below or send us a direct message to sign up for a free trial class! 🙌

Explore, Experiment, and Play with Science in VR 🌐

Incubated in Stanford, we're pioneering the future of learning with cutting-edge Virtual Reality technology. Our students discover SCIENCE through VR play and achieve a 68% improvement in their learning outcomes through immersive technologies.

🌟📚 VR learning project is redefining the way we acquire knowledge, making it more engaging and change the word unforgettable. We prepare students for future success by
✔️helping them become savvy technology users,
✔️strong communicators,
✔️effective collaborators,
✔️creative and critical thinkers.

Are you ready to unlock endless possibilities? Click the link in our bio to embark on this extraordinary learning journey. 🚀📲

🚀 VR in Learning 📚🌟

Last week, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning held a panel discussion on the state of the AI and VR industry.

The panel was organized by our own founder, Alex Stolyarik, who moderated this event, 🔥 featuring industry leaders from Meta, Roblox, Inworld, Virbela, Roblox, Shapes XR, and Flow Immersive.

Kiran Bhat, Senior Director Of Engineering at Roblox, a veteran in the AI sector and a recipient of the Sci-Fi Hollywood Award, elaborated on the educational potential of VR platforms like Roblox, where immersive 3D experiences can significantly enhance learning engagement and effectiveness driven by Generative AI technologies.

AI-powered VR platforms have the potential to revolutionize education by offering immersive and engaging learning experiences that traditional methods cannot. They enable experiential learning where students can interact with complex subjects via prompts and hands-on experimentation, which can lead to better understanding and retention of information. Moreover, VR's capacity to simulate various environments allows for safe, productive failure, which is essential for development and growth.

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A new in-VR genetics course, designed by Stanford PhD students for 8-9th graders, is offered by UniVirtual Academy. It is a unique opportunity for students to explore the basic principles of heredity, genetic mutations, and the structure and function of DNA and do it all in a collaborative immersive environment with other students and teachers. Pease, watch this video from the creator of the class, Marcos Rojas: https://youtu.be/sMXgIZDdytM. Parents can sign up their kids at https://univirtual.academy/camps/genetics-level-1

Genetics Level 1. Summer Camp Students will explore entrepreneurial topics by contextualizing their learning through the development of narratives that include key concepts of entrepreneurship. Students will create stories and learning games with role-play, simulate real or imaginary circumstances, present projects to peers, and...

Registration for our in-VR summer camps is open now. Find the class you like and register here: https://univirtual.academy/camps. New this year - on the last day of their camp, students will present to a panel of Stanford alumni.

Stanford University’s AI, Robotics and Future Education Lab, and Graduate School of Education began teaching a new virtual reality class. This course focuses on how immersive technologies are used for learning and teaching in VR and will introduce young education leaders to the VR learning platform, EcoSystemOne. For the next ten weeks, young educators will design new student-centered science learning experiences using EcoSystemOne.

Students from middle and high schools in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and California will become testers of the newly designed learning experiences. The teaching team members are experts in Learning Design, AI, VR, and education, including Alex Stolyarik and Dr. Li Jiang.

UniVirtual Academy is a consumer subsidiary of Ecosystemone offering immersive afterschool STEM classes to middle/high school students.

In my view, VR equipment will reach the mass market in 2024. Last month, VR hardware sales had another strong holiday season and are gearing up for another strong year ahead. There are indications that Meta Quest 2 sold 2M units this holiday season and Meta Quest was the most downloaded app in both iOS and Android app on Christmas. In many stores, Quest 2 was sold out and online retailers, like Amazon had to limit the number of units one can buy.

"Learning is often a social activity that is undertaken with a cohort of people with similar interests, goals, and in collaborative activities," by Martin Weller. With homeschooling and online schooling on the rise, it is important for parents and educators not to forget the social aspect of education. It also makes education more fun.