Google Expeditions, a virtual reality teaching tool built with Google Cardboard was introduced for educational purposes through Expeditions Pioneer Program, back in September last year. Google has now made the Expeditions app available to all the Android users. The company said that more than a million students from 11 countries have taken one of 200+ virtual reality trips.
Google has promised that the Expeditions app will soon be available for iPhone and iPad users. It has also introduced Google Cast for Education, a free Chrome app that lets students and teachers share their screens wirelessly from everywhere in the classroom without any hardware.
“Cast for Education carries video and audio across complex school networks, has built-in controls for teachers, and is integrated with Google Classroom” said the company.
Features of Google Expeditions
- Guide classroom-sized groups of locally connected users from your phone or tablet.
- Explore along with a guide in immersive VR by putting your Android phone into a Google Cardboard viewer (http://g.co/cardboard) or use an Android tablet or phone in 2D “magic window” mode.
- Connect devices over the same WiFi network – if the Guide has downloaded some Expeditions, there is no internet connectivity required to run the Expedition!
- Choose from a growing list of over 200 Expeditions – each one is a curated set of VR imagery along with integrated descriptions, talking points and questions.
Download Google Expeditions (Free) – Android