These kids build their own virtual world in OpenSim, then explored it with Oculus Rift

The students at St. Kieran’s, a school in the Irish town of Broughal, recently went on a field trip to Clonmacnoise, a nearby site with historic ruins.

They came back, and created a virtual model of the site in OpenSim.

It took two weeks to build it, using the standard OpenSim building tools.

Then the kids got the opportunity to put on Oculus Rift headsets and walk around inside their virtual world.

Student goes inside world she's built, realizes how big everything is. — Student goes inside world she’s built, realizes how big everything is.

A project like this requires math, historical research, teamwork, and creative skills.

The program that is bringing OpenSim to these schools in Ireland is MissionV, which we’ve covered before.

So far, the program has been running in testing mode with eleven schools. That testing is coming to an end, and the program will be open to all schools in Ireland in September. Read more about it at Technology.ie, a technology publication in Ireland. Or watch the video below.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.