VR Education
DCU Immersive ChemLab - AAS
An immersive virtual reality learning experience created in conjunction with Dublin City University and the Virtual Labs HCI P3 Initiative.
The Immersive Chemistry Lab is designed as a virtual environment for training in analytical techniques for quantitative chemistry experiments. In this module series, students get to perform metal analysis using flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) to get ‘hands on’ experience operating lab instrumentation, optimising conditions and undertaking quantitative analysis.
The lab environment has been designed for training third level chemistry undergraduate students at the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU) but has great potential as an immersive experience of an analytical chemistry lab for second level and even primary level students.
Students will be guided through multiple modules with detailed and interactive environments, contextual voice overs and a variety of tasks to complete. Incorporated into the standard curriculum, virtual reality education is a powerful tool that will help build students confidence in the use of sensitive laboratory equipment.
Live on the Meta Store: Immersive ChemLab - AAS
Part of the Virtual Labs Project 2020 - 2026 and winner of Team Prize for Excellence in Higher Education.
The Virtual Labs Project is a large-scale, highly innovative collaboration focused on the use of virtual laboratories as a teaching tool for the chemical sciences.
Journal of Science Education and Technology
The AAS VR experience was also part of a study by DCU on student perceptions and engagement with a virtual instrumentation twin in an undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory. Published in the Journal of Science Education and Technology in May 2026, it provides some very interesting results and most certainly worth a read.
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