{"id":18157,"date":"2019-07-03T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18157"},"modified":"2019-07-03T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:12:00","slug":"merge-lab-revolutionizes-learning-through-ar-vr-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/merge-lab-revolutionizes-learning-through-ar-vr-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"MERGE Lab revolutionizes learning through AR\/VR tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Imagine holding the human heart in your hand while learning anatomy or get a better perspective on the solar system by watching it from close quarters &#8211; this is what MERGE Lab offers students and educators via its flagship product Merge Cube.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mergevr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merge Labs,<\/a> founded in 2014, is the company that produces augmented reality and virtual reality tools that help educators teach their students in the most creative ways possible.<br \/>\nTheir product portfolio includes EDU Platform, Cube, Headset, and Miniverse.<strong> In the recently concluded ISTE conference, Merge Edu Platform won the \u201cBest of Show\u201d award.<\/strong><br \/>\nExcited with the possibilities offered by the products from Merge Labs, users have been enthusiastically sharing examples of their experimental lessons as seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just used my new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mergecube?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mergecube<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoInkTweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DoInkTweets<\/a> to make an intro for a biology lesson on cell organelles for use in @Flipgrid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pride_Mustangs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Pride_Mustangs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/misd_weRscience?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@misd_weRscience<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McAllenISD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@McAllenISD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vk11MccKDq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Vk11MccKDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Rocha MEd (@d4entieducator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/d4entieducator\/status\/1145516060973645827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThese products offer incredible possibilities for educators. They can now make STEM lessons fun for students by allowing them to experience \u201cscience\u201d in an entirely new way &#8211; be it building cities or dissecting a frog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Merge Edu Platform:<\/strong> a subscription-based platform that supports with AR\/VR tools for STEM education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merge Cube:<\/strong> this unique product allows students to \u201chold\u201d the object in their hand thereby creating a unique learning experience<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merge Headset:<\/strong> this rugged product provides \u201cimmersive AR\/VR learning experience using smartphones.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merge Miniverse:<\/strong> a platform that includes hundreds of games and applications which have been vetted to be safe for kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The road ahead for Merge Labs<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Patti, the Marketing Head for Merge, sees education as the key revenue driver for the company. <strong>Merge recently partnered with Microsoft<\/strong>. They now supply to twenty countries.<br \/>\n<strong>Beyond schools<\/strong><br \/>\nEducators, parents, and students are not the only ones to use merge products. Their technology is <strong>used effectively for sales demonstrations, product training,<\/strong> and so on. The makers claim that \u201cjust about any process that can be done in the physical world can be simulated in AR\/VR.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine holding the human heart in your hand while learning anatomy or get a better perspective on the solar system by watching it from close quarters &#8211; this is what MERGE Lab offers students and educators via its flagship product Merge Cube. Merge Labs, founded in 2014, is the company that produces augmented reality and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[134,912,913,1545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}