Exploring the Use of Social Virtual Reality Conferences in Higher Education

Sparked by the recent growth of online and remote teaching formats, social virtual reality (Social VR) applications are being employed in higher education teaching. This eliminates the need for physical presence in one classroom and allows for increased accessibility of classes. More engaging distant virtual classrooms and extracurricular activities are made possible by Social VR applications like Mozilla Hubs (MH). We conducted a virtual conference in web-based MH as a cross-university collaboration for two game development courses for undergraduate and graduate students. We report on our organizational strategy and subsequent online survey evaluation of
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attendees. We present solutions to problems that are frequently encountered, specifically in MH, while organizing virtual conferences.