Recently, a co-authored article entitled ‘XR4ED: An Extended Reality Platform for Education’ was published at IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. It presents the overall architecture and objectives of the EU-funded project dedicated to XR for education, called Extended Reality for Education (XR4ED). The goal is to provide a platform where educators will be able to build XR teaching experiences without the need to have programming or 3D modeling expertise.
The article describes the platform and focuses on a key aspect of collaborative and social XR, which is the use of avatars. We show initial results on a) a marketplace which is used for populating educational content into XR environments, b) an intelligent augmented reality assistant that communicates between nonplayer characters and learners, and c) self-avatars providing nonverbal communication in collaborative VR.
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