UCLA: When using virtual reality as a teaching tool, context and ‘feeling real’ matter

UCLA: When using virtual reality as a teaching tool, context and ‘feeling real’ matter. “Researchers asked 48 English-speaking participants to try to learn 80 words in two phonetically similar African languages, Swahili and Chinyanja, as they navigated virtual reality settings. Wearing VR headsets, participants explored one of two environments… Subjects who had learned each language in its own unique context mixed up fewer words and were able to recall 92% of the words they had learned.”