Imagine Matterport tech, married to unity 3D?!

Imagine bringing a whole lab, or site that's hard or expensive to be visited, or may be unsafe, imagine bringing it to your students at the safety of their seat, where now they can actually tour in actual 3D (not only in 2D like with 360 cameras) where they can move forward or backwards (not zoom in and out), go up the stairs, move around objects and more in a real life environment not a graphics background! 

This is only possible now with the amazing technology brought by Matterport, where students can scan a whole lab, site, museum, hospital, workshop, etc. and simply load that to a tablet, laptop or smartphone, and just move around checking all they want, for different purposes like I mentioned in my last article about the 360 tours, only now this is in full real life 3D not graphics anymore and not just 2D.

For instance you have a construction site, or a crime scene, or a workshop, or a chemical processing facility, you can simply scan and use as you wish with your students, for design purposes, for inspection purposes or architecture education purposes, and even practical examination purposes.

The next level:

Now let's fly higher and imagine such 3D scans of different locations or houses/facilities, to be used on a platform such as Unity 3D to create real life virtual environment and not just graphics simulations!

You can create a 3D game personalised to you own house, or you can imagine students interacting with objects during their tour in a 3D workshop, or while inspecting a site, in game based learning experience that is happening in a non-graphic 3D environment.

Using 3D object scanners, you may scan real objects to embed for students to interact with also, instead of graphic objects!

Imagine having all that on a VR headset, where students are fully immersed in such a real life environment where they can add even sound effects. This opens a whole new world of interactive simulation activities that does not need graphics anymore, but more real life. I think Vive HTC may be a could candidate for that.

The downside though is that it's still considered an expensive technology where Matterport camera costs around 4500 USD, although you can just rent one, but take note that till now you can only load it online with internet connection, because all Matterport models must be stored on Cloud and you can not have your model offline.

Let's see if soon we can take things even to the next level with real life holograms and products such as Microsoft Hololens!