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ATLANTA — Morehouse College, the alma mater of Martin Luther

King Jr., Spike Lee, and Senator Ralph Warnock, will lead higher
education into a new frontier this spring as students will be o!ered two
classes held in virtual reality (VR).

“Providing an immersive classroom experience for our students during

this pandemic is important and Morehouse College is pleased to lead
the way,” said Dr. Kendrick Brown, Provost of Morehouse College.

"e classes are more than online virtual, they are fully immersive in
VR. With a donation from Qualcomm Technologies, students will be
given an Oculus Quest 2, powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™
XR2 Platform, where they can access the fully immersive, digitized
version of the Morehouse campus and select classes.

“We believe that immersive education through VR is a transformative

way to learn,” said Brian Vogelsang, senior director of product
management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “It’s great to see
Qualcomm® XR Enterprise Program partner, VictoryXR, continue to
help scale VR education, especially with an acclaimed college like
Morehouse.”

"e #rst two classes taught on the digital twin VR campus have been
Biology 105, focusing on men’s health, taught by Dr. Ethell Vereen and
History 112, focusing on world history and taught by Dr. Ovell
Hamilton. Dr. Muhsinah Morris also launched a course in VR and is
assisting collaborators at VictoryXR in develop chemistry content for
VR that had not existed before, while Dr. Tanya Clark launched a VR
course for her popular Blacks in Wonderland First Year Experience
course. Dushunte Carmon, assistant director of sponsored academic
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course. Dushunte Carmon, assistant director of sponsored academic

initiatives at Morehouse, has also been instrumental in creating new
virtual experiences for students and helping to bring about innovation
that will be used as a model at other institutions.

“Higher ed must not be afraid to take remote learning to a more

immersive and e!ective level,” said Dr. Ovell Hamilton. “With this
virtual reality campus, students will be able to travel back in time and
stand on a Naval carrier or travel to places across the globe.”

While Morehouse College provides the students, faculty, and

curriculum, the digital campus and learning objects are provided by
VictoryXR. Steve Grubbs, the company CEO, commented, “"is
partnership gives the rest of the academic world a glimpse into the
future of education. "ese classes will be surprisingly close to those
imagined in the book, "Ready Player One."

Just like a real campus, a VR campus allows students to attend class

together in real time, conduct science experiments, and dig for fossils.
Unlike a real campus, students on the VR campus can expand a human
heart and step inside it, jump into a time machine and visit wooly
mammoths, or beam up to a starship and learn astronomy close up.

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