ABSTRACT

This article outlines how Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, software and content can be used as a resource for teaching and learning in Geography. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences of using VR for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, we explore firstly how VR can enhance the development of fieldwork observational techniques, knowledge and understanding of place, prior to entering the field. Secondly, we show how VR can be used to enable students to develop critical analytical skills in relation to emergent visual technologies and the wider implications VR has for the representation of people, places and landscapes. Finally, the article will attend to the ways VR and Augmented Reality (AR) – due to its growing industrial application – can offer important opportunities for the development of unique practical employability skills which can be applied to the geovisualization of data and environments enhancing graduate career prospects.

摘要

本文概述了如何将虚拟现实 (VR) 技术、软件和内容用作地理教学和学习的资源。借鉴作者在本科和研究生教学中使用 VR 的第一手经验，我们首先探讨了 VR 如何促进田野观察技术、对地方、先验知识和理解的发展。进入该领域。其次，我们展示了如何使用 VR 来帮助学生发展与新兴视觉技术相关的批判性分析技能，以及 VR 对人物、地点和景观的表现的更广泛影响。最后，本文将探讨 VR 和增强现实 (AR) 的方式——由于其不断增长的工业应用——可以为发展独特的实用就业技能提供重要机会，这些技能可应用于数据和环境的地理可视化，从而提高毕业生的职业生涯前景。