Legend has it that Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, sparking a bout of scientific thinking that led to the theory of gravity. It's one of the most famous stories in science, perhaps because it shows the power of simple human experiences to revolutionize our understanding of the world around us. Instead of learning biology with a pen and paper, students become biomedical researchers designing a tissue regeneration therapy. Instead of learning trigonometry in a textbook, students become rural architects designing a new school building. 'We're building a whole new learning platform, methodology, and tech infrastructure that allows students to experience problems in the first person, not through abstractions or 2D screens, and then go from that experience to ascribe meaning, language, and build up to equations, procedures, and other nomenclature,' Ganguly explains. Today PrismsVR has been used by about 300,000 students across 35 states. The company's...
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