MCC highlights new virtual and alternate reality program - Spectrum News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Monroe Community College is taking learning to a caller level by utilizing alternate and virtual world technologies to get students motivated successful vocation exploration and to get much students funny successful manufacturing.

“It seems similar the younker has this thought that manufacturing is old, it’s hard, and they besides sometimes deliberation it doesn’t wage arsenic much,” said Siva Visveswaran, programme manager of Software and Information Technology astatine Monroe Community College. “But each of that is wrong.”

And with the assistance of the AR VR program, students volition capable to spot it for themselves.

“These technologies are besides large for teaching and learning,” Visveswaran said. “They’re immersive. They connection audio-visual stimulation. They connection a batch amended representation recall.”

It’s allowing students the accidental to person hands-on acquisition with antithetic manufacturing careers from the information of the classroom.

“There’s besides this different facet that these technologies are being utilized successful the industries,” she said. “If you spell to a astute mill contiguous oregon a manufacturing plant, they’re utilizing these AR technologies to augment a person’s capableness and work.”

The programme offers students a mode to research caller vocation paths by amended knowing them.

“When they commencement seeing that this is high-tech factories, they’re going to person to beryllium making a batch of precise captious decisions truthful they consciousness precise empowered, “Visveswaran said. “And past they tin spot faster growth, they’re going privation to get into these spaces.” 

The halfway hopes this volition connection students a full caller satellite of possibilities careless of the vocation way they choose.

“We’re talking successful the discourse of manufacturing today, which is the absorption of our guardant center,” Visveswaran said. “But if you look astatine these technologies they are applicable crossed different industries arsenic well.”

Industries similar wellness care, which has already been utilizing AR and VR exertion for distant surgeries.

“I mean it’s already happening,” Visveswaran said. “I deliberation overtime, schools volition deploy each of these technologies successful their program and successful their classrooms.”