Week 1 Webinars [2021]

Session Focus:

• What is VR?
• Why teach It?
• Getting started in the classroom

Click here for a list of links referenced during the session, including session slides, readings, and other resources.

Mark Suter

Mark is a computer science, game design, and entrepreneurship teacher with 14 years of experience in the classroom and represents Unity as a teacher ambassador. Mark’s classroom is a hybrid of a mad scientist’s laboratory and a traveling circus. Mistakes are encouraged, iteration is frequent, and expectations are high. Mark is always a student and sometimes a teacher.

Luis Zanforlin

Luis Zanforlin is a virtual reality engineer and contemporary orchestral music composer. He currently works as a research associate and VR developer at MIT where he creates new media experiences and contributes in teaching virtual reality and immersive media. He is the co-found Maku XR, an experimental media studio. At the moment he is developing Skybinder, a VR puzzle game made with Unity.

These recorded Open Office Hour sessions provide support for educators with course projects and to answer questions related to teaching VR.

To download a list of links referenced during the session, please click here.