Bringing Virtual Reality to Texas Students

The San Isidro Independent School District in Texas hasn’t budgeted much for field trips, but students there will still experience a 20th-century California ranch, New York City’s Time Square, and the inside of an atom, thanks to new ClassVR (virtual reality) headsets funded by the Region One Education Services Center GEAR UP program. The headsets provide an immersive, 360-degree digital environment where students can interact with what they see, as if the places, people, or situations in front of them were real.

“The GEAR UP program has been great for bringing technology and training to our district,” Cristobal Vela, GEAR UP facilitator for San Isidro ISD, said in a public statement. “ClassVR provides an excellent opportunity to have students experience places that they otherwise would never be able to visit.”