Googles Virtual Reality Tech Article September 29,2015

-Google announced its virtual reality (VR) Expeditions initiative for schools earlier this year, but now the company is making a big push to take it to classrooms around the world following a successful pilot program

-In case you didn’t catch it first time around, the Expeditions Pioneer Program is the next best thing to a real-life field trip, offering students a chance to visit faraway locations – think Great Wall of China/Great Barrier Reef, as well as places a little too far for a school bus to reach, like Mars) – using VR gear.

-A classroom kit comprises ASUS smartphones, Google Cardboard viewers or Mattel View-Masters to transform the phones into VR headsets, a tablet enabling the teacher to direct VR tours, and a router that allows Expeditions to run without an Internet connection.

-Teachers can already choose from more than 100 tours with content provided by the likes of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt