I promise, OLDaily is not going to start obsessing over the deals large organizations sign with each other. But this agreement represents a reality that needs to be discussed: the high cost of VR content. It's not the sort of thing institutions and even national agencies can simply start producing; we've been working on one through the fall in our office and it's just a simple pilot idea, and would need commercial production to be viable. On the other hand, all the problems we currently have with learning resource and textbook publishers will most likely emerge in the world of VR, until (and unless) open educational VRs (which I hereby dub 'open virtual educational resources' (OVERs) become widely available. So when I look at a deal like this between Jisc and Coherent I hope it's with an eye toward producing OVERs but I fear it may not be.
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