The Educational Metaverse

The word “metaverse” was introduced in a 1992 sci-fi novel by Neal Stephenson called Snow Crash where people use simulated forms called avatars to interact both with one another as well as non-human programs in a virtual environment. In the past few years this fiction has now become a reality. With games such as Fortnite and Social Media environments such as Facebook’s VR environment Horizon now publically available the age of Metaverses has arrived. At BrainSTEM we are harnessing this exciting set of technologies and combining them with real-world learning opportunities to produce the first Educational Metaverse.

Plug into  a persistent, synchronous, virtual space integrated with real-world elements such as robots, machines, and makers labs where people can interact with one another in real-time and where both planned and spontaneous events occur that bridge the gap between the virtual and real world. This metaverse will have its own economy to enable designed to harness the resourcefulness and ingenuity of its members to open up learning opportunities in Engineering,  Robotics, Aerospace, Computer Programming, Game Design, Media Production, Product Desing and much much more.