Google-Labster cooperation
Virtual reality for 3D laboratory
A cooperation between Google and Labster, a provider of laboratory simulations, has resulted in an app for virtual reality-supported laboratory simulation. Arizona State University will use it to offer a complete online degree course in biology.
The VR simulations currently give students access to more than 30 differently equipped laboratories. They can carry out experiments safely and without major maintenance costs for the university. Additional functions such as a time-lapse or zoom function simplify long-term experiments. Unlike in a real laboratory, experiments can also be rewound in time in order to correct an error retrospectively.
Laboratory simulations in themselves are not new. Labster has been developing the software for this purpose for some time and it is used at US universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley, Trinity College in Dublin and Hong Kong University. Until now, however, these simulations have been limited to desktop PCs.
From the desktop to VR glasses
Thanks to the collaboration with Google, the software has been migrated to the Daydream VR platform. This allows students to use it in combination with VR glasses. It is compatible with the Daydream View (Google) and Mirage Solo (Lenovo) models.
The VR version was developed in cooperation with Arizona State University. It tested the virtual laboratory equipment and the teaching content. The university, which already offers various online degree courses, has announced a purely online degree course in biology for fall 2018. VR laboratory simulations for the fields of cellular and molecular biology and animal physiology will be integrated into the curriculum.
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