Miami Dade School Debuts Twin Metaverse Campus Metaversity

Miami Dade School has launched its digital twin campus referred to as Metaversity. With the brand new platform, college students and educators can now attend lessons, collaborate on tasks, and work together with each other in a completely digital setting. 

Created by VR/AR instructional platform builder VictoryXR, the digital campus will supply college students an immersive instructional expertise within the metaverse. VictoryXR recreated the true faculty’s buildings, complementing its services and enabling college students to attend digital lessons and occasions, cruise by campus, and extra. 

Metaversity additionally hopes to extend engagement and collaboration whereas innovating the teaching-learning expertise. The numerous benefit for Metaversity college students is not any geographical restrictions; they’ll be a part of lessons from world wide. 

The digital campus expects lessons to start within the fall of this 12 months, with VR-enhanced programs and educational labs included in this system.

“This venture provides a singular alternative for college kids, college, and employees to discover and create immersive digital environments, fostering innovation and transformative studying outcomes. We wish to proceed providing instructional sources that put together our graduates to thrive in a digital world the place expertise evolves by the minute,”

MDC President Madeline Pumariega acknowledged. 

Miami Dade School is among the first instructional entities within the US to create a twin metaverse campus. Nonetheless, in August 2022, the Hong Kong College of Science and Expertise (HKUST) turned the world’s first to develop a Metaverse campus, connecting its campuses in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

In April, main metaverse platform The Sandbox partnered with HKUST and the Hong Kong Design Institute to supply digital experiences within the metaverse. The 2 instructional establishments joined The Sandbox’s Mega Metropolis 3, a program that features scientific packages, gaming experiences, seminars, and workshops performed by The Sandbox. 

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