Will Learning Move into the Metaverse?
Pamela Hogle,
Learning Solutions,
Jun 14, 2022
The answer to the question in the title, in my view, is that "some of it will". But if you're expecting to start taking classes in VR auditoriums, think again. That's not going to stop the sales push, and we get a feel for that in this article (despite the token pushback from Jaron Lanier). Here are some of the products. The article quotes Bill Gates from last years saying "Within the next two or three years, I predict most virtual meetings will move from 2-D camera image grids—which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably dates me—to the metaverse, a 3-D space with digital avatars." There's no chance that this prediction is accurate. The future of the metaverse is not meetings, it's environments, and this will take a long time to develop, and these will require specific learning objectives that can't be presented in real life or as a two-dimensional experience (eg., how to crew a submarine, how to repair a nuclear reactor, how to splice DNA, how to work as an ER assistant).
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