EAGER: US IGNITE: Collaborative Exploration in Networked VR Environments, and Application to Remotely-Guided Classroom

EAGER：US IGNITE：网络 VR 环境中的协作探索以及远程引导课堂的应用

• 批准号: 1451833
• 负责人: Christoph Borst
• 金额: $ 29.78万
• 依托单位: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; US; IGNITE; Collaborative; Exploration

This project focuses on taking advantage of emerging virtual reality (VR) technology and high-performance networks for collaborative exploration of 3D environments, and on the application of such environments to education. The project is developing an immersive networked collaborative VR environment for education about energy technologies. As part of the project the system will be deployed to assess the value of its tools for high-school STEM education. The overall goal is to explore, and to help spark, the transformative potential of high-performance networks and emerging VR devices for innovative educational and other beneficial uses.The project leverages the City of Lafayette's innovative "Fiber-to-the-Home" project that has brought high-speed fiber optic internet access directly to every school and home in the city, including the David Thibodeaux STEM Magnet Academy, the target high-school for the project. The project also leverages an existing non-collaborative VR tour of a "Virtual Energy Center" that was developed to explain solar thermal power and other alternative energy concepts to high school students. It models a real-world facility, the UL Lafayette Pilot Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Plant in Crowley, Louisiana, a research facility for alternative energy sources.

该项目着重于利用新兴的虚拟现实（VR）技术和高性能网络，以对3D环境进行协作探索，以及将这种环境应用于教育。该项目正在开发一个沉浸式网络的协作VR环境，以了解有关能源技术的教育。作为该项目的一部分，该系统将被部署，以评估其工具对高中STEM教育的价值。 The overall goal is to explore, and to help spark, the transformative potential of high-performance networks and emerging VR devices for innovative educational and other beneficial uses.The project leverages the City of Lafayette's innovative "Fiber-to-the-Home" project that has brought high-speed fiber optic internet access directly to every school and home in the city, including the David Thibodeaux STEM Magnet Academy, the target high-school for the project. 该项目还利用了“虚拟能源中心”的现有非授权VR巡回演出，该旅行是为了向高中生​​解释太阳能热力和其他替代能源概念的开发。它建模了现实世界中的设施，即路易斯安那州克劳利的UL Lafayette Pilot浓缩太阳能（CSP）工厂，这是一种替代能源的研究设施。