KU School of Nursing launches “Metaversity” offering virtual, immersive learning - The Derby Informer

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – As a kid increasing up successful California, Alejandra Buenrostro utilized to ticker “The Magic School Bus” connected television. In the animated PBS series, Ms. Frizzle and her students rode a peculiar autobus that could instrumentality them connected subject tract trips to different intolerable places, including wrong the quality body. 

Now a bachelor’s pupil astatine the University of Kansas School of Nursing-Salina, Buenrostro has a accidental to larn astir the aforesaid way. By donning a headset that enables her to stitchery with her classmates successful a virtual world (VR) replica of the KU School of Nursing campus, she besides volition beryllium capable to travel, virtually, wrong a quality heart, look astatine the tubules wrong a kidney and research a brace of lungs.