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August 10, 2016 09:04 pm GMT

Virtual reality might be the next big thing in Chinese classrooms

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Deep within a building shaped like the Starship Enterprise, a little-known Chinese company is working on the future of education. 

Vast banks of servers record children at work and play, tracking touchscreen swipes, shrugs and head swivels — amassing a database that will be used to build intimate profiles of millions of kids. 

This is the Fuzhou hive of NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video game maker and unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers. 

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It’s one of a growing number of companies from IBM to Lenovo studying how to use technology like VR to arrest a fickle child’s attention (and perhaps someday to make a mint from that data by showing them ads.) Read more...

More about Tech, Educational, China, Vr, and Virtual Reality

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