I am having a debate with a colleague of mine about using virtual reality in education. It comes down to a simple question: Is it more useful to visualize the visible or the invisible?
He thinks it is more useful to use VR to get a better insight into things that we can see but not normally interact with, like planets. I am more excited about using VR to interact with things we normally could never see, like atoms.
It’s not exactly that one of us is right and the other wrong. It’s more a question of which is the more natural fit for VR in education.
At the end of the day, my guess is that we are probably both sort of right. Like my dad used to say when I would ask him a silly question: “Do you want to go to Brooklyn or by bus?”