The Real XR Revolution in Education (is not what you think)

XR (extended reality) has the potential to revolutionize education, but the most significant shift is not expected to occur in schools or universities. To understand why and where XR will have the most significant impact, we need to differentiate between learning as a cognitive process and education as a system.

While immersive tours of ancient Rome or interactive 3D models of the solar system, molecules, or frogs are amazing tools for primary and secondary education, they don't solve the problems faced by the education system, such as funding, safety, equality, and curriculum.

AR and VR applications in education can make a big impact on vocational training by accelerating the learning process, delivering smart contact lenses that blur the lines between training, apprenticeship, and doing the job, making professional certifications fully digital, and increasing workforce mobility by accelerating and streamlining training, re-training, and certification.

In conclusion, while XR has the potential to revolutionize education, its biggest impact is expected to be in vocational training for specific jobs and on-the-job training, primarily blue-collar. Despite being less "photogenic" than other education applications, XR can make a significant impact by delivering accelerated and streamlined training, re-training, and certification, thereby increasing workforce mobility and benefiting both employers and employees.

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