Techne: Educating architects with VR

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Virtual Reality used to be the stuff of third-rate movies and tv shows with really fantastical plots that made one think, “how did these people get this job?” Fortunately, there are many university researchers who have constantly toiled at making real VR a useful and integral reality.

Take the VR learning site at Columbia. For anyone curious about western architecture there are some interesting structures to explore. It’s true that Columbia and the core Art History class that initially inspired this site is unfortunately Eurocentric: for example, French structures seem overrepresented.

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Cite: Sherin Wing. "Techne: Educating architects with VR" 08 Feb 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/206554/techne-educating-architects-with-vr> ISSN 0719-8884

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