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Discovery VR has produced the educational virtual reality experiences\u00a0Racing Extinction: Project Conservation<\/em>, The Hive G<\/em>ame<\/em> and The Hive <\/em>360 video. <\/em><\/p>\n

Racing Extinction: Project Conservation<\/em> and The Hive Game<\/em>\u00a0have launched on Samsung GearVR headsets in alignment with National Education Week. Racing Extinction: Project Conservation<\/em> marks the premiere of interactive experiences on the Discovery VR GearVR app. It offers up-close-and-personal encounters with elephants, tigers, giraffes, lions, rhinoceroses, manta rays, whale sharks and reef sharks, and teaches users about their fight against extinction.<\/p>\n

The Hive<\/em> Game<\/em> is an interactive endless-runner game available as a stand-alone app in the Oculus Store, as well as on GearVR. The game tests players\u2019 skills at being a productive member of a beehive.<\/p>\n

The Hive<\/em> 360 video, meanwhile, will launch next week. It takes viewers inside the world of bees and beekeepers. Additionally, the Discovery VR app is being updated across all platforms and will feature new navigation, search and download capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Discovery, education and conservation are core to our mission,\u201d said Rebecca Howard, the senior VP of emerging platforms and partnerships at Discovery. \u201cAs Discovery continues to lead the way in creating stories for emerging platforms, interactive experiences will progressively become a necessary storytelling tool to further engage, educate and entertain audiences. The Discovery VR team worked closely with Oculus and their guidance was invaluable in developing these experiences for their platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ability for VR to impact education is one of the most promising use cases for the technology,\u201d added Tina Tran, the head of educational content at Oculus. \u201cVR provides unique opportunities for learning, exploration and discovery with a perspective that cannot be achieved in any other medium.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtual reality content has the unique ability to create immersive learning experiences that transport students beyond the four walls of the classroom to experience people, places and ideas they might not otherwise see,\u201d commented Amy Gensemer, Discovery Education\u2019s director of science instruction. \u201cFor example, Discovery\u2019s virtual reality content focusing on urban bee populations helps students anywhere explore the unique role these insects play in our shared environment. It\u2019s engaging learning opportunities like these that spark students\u2019 natural curiosity and encourage further investigation of the world around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexa Verveer, the senior VP of public policy, corporate and government affairs for Discovery Communications, remarked, \u201cVirtual reality is a great way to bring\u00a0unique experiences, like seeing tigers, elephants, and giraffes in their natural habitats, to all citizens, including government officials and NGOs.\u00a0These VR experiences\u00a0can raise awareness and provide insight that might not otherwise be readily\u00a0available, and can be helpful to\u00a0developing global\u00a0best practices and\u00a0policies.\u00a0The importance of protecting wildlife and conservation becomes more tangible when facts and context can be explored in this\u00a0meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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