Students can now test future skills and explore careers with virtual reality career experiences they would never get in the real world.

That includes taking a dive into a South Pacific reef, visit glaciers in Iceland, interact with baby elephants in Kenya or even go to space, as well as performing heart surgery.

Chris Gillard, a virtual reality education and training expert from Mindflight7, said it is the way of the future.

“Virtual reality education is such a great conversion, it’s motivating, engaging, it provides authentic learning experiences for kids, in a really fun way as well,” he said.

He said it was amazing for “training and career exploration” and an emerging area.

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