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.

该项目专注于利用新兴的虚拟现实(VR)技术和高性能网络来协作探索3D环境，并将此类环境应用于教育。该项目正在开发一种沉浸式网络协作虚拟现实环境，用于能源技术教育。作为该项目的一部分，该系统将用于评估其高中STEM教育工具的价值。该项目的总体目标是探索并帮助激发高性能网络和新兴VR设备的变革潜力，用于创新教育和其他有益用途。该项目利用拉斐特市创新的“光纤到户”项目，将高速光纤互联网接入城市中的每一所学校和家庭，包括该项目的目标高中大卫·蒂博多STEM磁力学院。该项目还利用了一个现有的非协作式虚拟现实之旅，即“虚拟能源中心”，该中心的开发是为了向高中生解释太阳能热能和其他替代能源的概念。它模拟了一个真实的设施，路易斯安那州克劳利的UL Lafayette Pilot聚光太阳能(CSP)工厂，一个替代能源的研究设施。