Communications of the ACM
VR: The New Education Prescription
Purdue University researchers have created a virtual cleanroom to help train pharmacy students.
Credit: Hannah Cross
Purdue University researchers working with the university's Envision Center have developed a virtual cleanroom environment to train pharmacy students on compounding procedures and technique.
Purdue's Steven Abel said the virtual setting is more affordable to the university than setting up and running actual cleanrooms.
The university's Kara Weatherman is working with the Envision Center to incorporate augmented reality to help students better visualize elements of pharmacy with no visual component, like radiation.
Weatherman's program will allow learners to see radiation emissions overlaid on real-world objects via a Microsoft HoloLens.
Weatherman also is developing a simulation that would allow users to scan for hidden radiation spots in a virtual landscape using a virtual reality headset and paddle-like manual controllers that appear to the user as a survey meter.
From Purdue Exponent
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