“We feel like we’re helping to grow the next generation of hologram engineers, artists and entrepreneurs through those kinds of educational tools,” he says.
While the back-end technologies may differ, holograms and hologramlike images are advancing toward a future in which remote collaboration may be richer and far more immersive than videoconferencing alone.
University of Texas MBA Students Attend Class with a 3D Professor
About a year ago, Professor Steve Limberg of the University of Texas at Austin taught his executive MBA students as a live, 3D image. He says the experience was much closer to teaching in person.
“My virtual presence in the classroom enabled me to see the room as I would normally see it if I’m standing in front of a class,” says Limberg. “I could see if students were distracted or if they wanted to get my attention. All those nuances you see in a classroom could be captured from my perspective.”
Video can’t always capture body language, yet educators depend on it to gauge students’ comprehension and engagement. That’s just one of the ways in which online teaching posed a challenge during the pandemic, according to the Center on Reinventing Public Education.