Benefits of VR Educaon

• Making education accessible: In SouthAfrican schools, virtual reality can be used as teaching aids to compensate for the lack of other necessary teaching resources. For example, students can have access to virtual physics laboratories through VR.

• Enhancing educational experiences: Virtual reality enhances teaching and learning encounters by affording students with the opportunity to have immersive and interactive experiences that are not applicable in a non-resourced classroom.

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• Explaining theoretical concepts: Virtual reality application in education is deemed to be effective due to its affordance to students to have access to content that they would otherwise not have access to.They can see how various processes occur in real time. E.g., Students can have a real time visualization experience of how magnets interact with each other.