Exploring a New Frontier of Learning: My University Experience in the Metaverse

Wait, virtual learning can actually be fun?

As I stood in the huge conference room at the London Meta office, Steve from VictoryXR placed a headset on my head. I nervously waited as a world began to light up before my eyes. One moment I was in Kings Cross, and the next, I was transported to a university in the Metaverse via a Meta Quest headset.

Yes, you read that right. Having lived through my university’s dreadful attempts at online, I was sceptical of digital learning. For me, it involved a Zoom call with a camera off, scrolling through social media while my teacher read paragraphs from a textbook and an awkwardly silent breakout room. When I stepped into Metaversity, I realised just how different classes would be here in comparison.

The Meta for Education beta program has been working with mixed and virtual reality to take learning to the next level. Instead of reading about the human body, you can open it up yourself. Instead of writing your Spanish conjugations, you can walk along a street in Spain and use them in a natural conversation. It’s all designed to immerse you in the experience, which is exactly what happened to me.