On the fourth floor of a UNC-Chapel Hill classroom, a cohort of five nursing students use immersive virtual reality technology for the first time. The students spread out and move their bodies to ...

Virtual reality is not just for video games anymore. It has a very real place in higher education today. By applying virtual reality technology to a wide range of training and educational purposes, ...

The nearly $800,000 project is funded by the North Carolina Collaboratory, which was created by the General Assembly to conduct research across the UNC System to inform policymaking on the state and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Students at Maria College are stepping inside the world of virtual reality to level up their education, but this is no game. Since opening its doors in January, the Maria College ...

Today we’re not only facing a critical shortage of skilled nurses, exacerbated by pandemic burnout layered onto the aging nursing workforce, but we’re also confronted with the fact that most licensed ...

ALBANY — For generations, learning to be a nurse meant studying textbooks, practicing on mannequins and then facing real people. Now, modern nursing schools have added a new step: virtual reality.

The gray virtual reality headset transforms the typical classroom into a busy virtual hospital. Gamers are not the only people benefitting from virtual reality. VR is being used by nursing programs ...

Luke Stuchlik wanders around a non-descript room inside the University of Delaware’s McDowell Hall wearing an Oculus headset. His movements to a lay person look a bit aimless, but they’re quite ...

The nursing profession today is faced with a rising demand for care for an aging Baby Boomer population while simultaneously experiencing shortages related to a lack of educators, workforce geographic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jim Halsey, 83, has traveled to Japan and South Korea, through Europe and Central America. One recent day, he squatted in a narrow, ...