Virtual classrooms project

Students could experience travelling inside the human body or going back in time with the launch of a project to create virtual reality (VR) classrooms.

Academics at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with digital reality experts Sublime, have been awarded funding for their £1 million Project Mobius to build a higher education VR platform.

The three-year pilot will use the latest technology to create teaching apps or lectures which will be housed on the platform.

The university will initially build two high-tech VR labs or classrooms each with the capacity for 15 students at a time.

The aim is to translate the VR resources into other languages and have students and academics around the world benefit from the project, the team said.

The funding award was made by Innovate UK.