From cardboard to Meta Quest: the VR Lab through the years
How virtual reality at MMS grew from a homemade classroom experiment into a full VR Lab used by every grade, KG through 12.
Homemade VR viewers
In 2014, long before a dedicated VR Lab existed, MMS developed its own VR viewing device and held classes using it, an integrated approach that applied the converging and diverging properties of lenses on light to build a working virtual reality viewer by hand, complete with lenses and a strap, using ordinary smartphones as the screen.
VR Class Voyage: the Virtual Reality Classroom is inaugurated
On 24 January 2024, MMS inaugurated its dedicated Virtual Reality Classroom under the theme “Virtual Reality is a journey to the Unknown.” School leadership, staff and students marked the occasion with a traditional lamp lighting ceremony and ribbon cutting, before the first VR Class Voyage session, where guests, teachers and students alike put on the headsets together.
Meta Quest headsets, every grade
The VR Lab now runs full VR headset sessions for students across every grade, alongside regular staff training so every teacher can bring VR into their own classroom.
