The newly arranged classroom is equipped with 25 virtual reality goggles, so called headsets, making it a state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) classroom. This gives students a space for 3D learning, creating 3D content, engaging with the international virtual community, self-presentation and gaining expertise in the field. Not only the basics of virtual reality, but also the development of the VR applications themselves are taught in specialised courses at the faculty. In these courses, students learn the principles of how headsets work, delve into the world of virtual universes or augmented reality, and discover how VR can be used in industry, games, as well as medicine and psychology. Students can develop and test their projects, of which more than 400 have already been created, directly in the classroom, while also working on them outside of class.
"With these headsets, we offer both technical and capacity support in VR. This gives our students a unique opportunity to understand the principles of creating virtual 3D universes," says Assoc. Petr Klán, head of the classroom and adds: "In the classroom, up to 25 students can be connected to virtual reality at the same time, meet in one virtual world, and create and interact with other virtual reality users outside the faculty, regardless of where they are physically located. So it happens that even people from the US or Japan join our virtual worlds."
The classroom will also be used for work on bachelor's and master's theses related to virtual reality. Some of them are also being created within the project "Dowry cities of the Czech Queens", which deals with the journey through time and space into the history of Czech cities through VR. The equipment of the classroom is financed from faculty resources and the teaching is co-financed by the project of the Ministry of Education and Science from the Operational Project Research, Development and Education, ESF Call for Universities II entitled "Comprehensive Teaching of Virtual Reality at FIT".