Virtual Reality Tours Give Rural Students a Glimpse of College Life By: Carol Cutter White/The Conversation The first time that Nyah visited the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a campus tour, there wasn't much of a chance to see what takes place inside the classrooms. "We just walked by buildings and the guide talked about what goes on inside," Nyah recalls of the campus tour this past spring. But during a second "tour" of UNC Greensboro this fall, Nyah, now a senior, got to see students in a science lab, even though she never left her high school in Roxboro, North Carolina, a small city of about 8,400 more than an hour from the Greensboro campus. Rather, Nyah got to "see" UNC Greensboro through cardboard goggles and an immersive 360-degree virtual reality college tour app that I'm helping to develop... Read More |