Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education

Educational environment has faced and continues to face a lack of personnel, especially in fields of activity difficult to be understood like mathematics or physics. For this reason, schools are required to teach their students in classes with more students, being difficult for teachers to explain and exercise with every student individually. This involves blocking the activity during class of both the teacher and the other students. For a better understanding, in all science courses, the teachers usually spend multiple hours on the same subject, at the same time. After completing the subject, students need practice for memorizing and often need the teacher to help with homework. Because an active individual teacher, even virtual, is easier to be understood than a written instruction, the authors propose the use of virtual environments as a Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) teacher. The use of augmented reality glasses offers a number of advantages, including: the possibility of working at the same time while following the instructions, reviewing the course material or following a teacher resolving an exercise without having to interrupt or taking a long time to resolve the homework. This paper presents the possibilities of using virtual and augmented reality devices such as Google Glass or Oculus Rift for individual teaching classes.