From IRL to URL: Atlanta students experience virtual reality through ‘Creator Zone’ - WSB Atlanta

ATLANTA — From the existent satellite to the virtual world, NFL stars and Meta have partnered to springiness Atlanta students escaped entree to virtual reality.

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On Tuesday, NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young and erstwhile NFL subordinate Jerry Rice joined forces with Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to supply a integer translation with their all-new “8 to 80 Zones / Creator Zone” enactment center.

Students got the accidental to acquisition virtual world utilizing Meta Quest 2 headsets astatine the uncover of the Johnson STEM Activity Center.

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The intent of 8 to 80 Zones is to code the challenges of practice successful the tech, gaming and augmented/virtual reality industries.

Students tin larn much astir careers successful technology, e-sports, gaming and media, arsenic good arsenic grooming connected cutting borderline instrumentality and bundle for television, radio, dependable recording, graphic plan and crippled development.

The zones are a escaped assets for students 13 years aged and older.

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