This Girl Has a Real Virtual Career Ahead of Her

摘要

It was a scene that would turn many people off technology forever. Holly Baiotto was a freshman at Van Meter High School in Iowa, USA, and had recently been invited to join her school's chapter of the Virtual Reality Education Pathfinders , a virtual reality club. Her principal at the time, John Carver, had acquired from the University of Maine a massive piece of technology called an Immersadesk R2, a semi-immersive virtual reality workstation. It arrived in a gigantic box inside a horse trailer on the last day of school in 2009, and Holly remembers it well: When we opened it, everything was a complete mess.