The Learning Room is a wrap-around projection room, with a Virtual Environment that extends across three walls and the floor, approaching the immersion of Virtual Reality without the claustrophobia of a headset.
A safe, unobtrusive simulation of day-to-day real-world experiences, allowing children with Intellectual Disabilities like Autism to master everyday life skills as well as academic learning. Teaching autistic children to cross a busy road safely can be dangerous. Here's where Projected Immersion and AR come into play.
The Learning Room helps trainers to set up real road-crossing challenges for the children to face in a progressively incremental sequence, giving them an opportunity to develop the skills needed to cross safely, without exposing them to busy roads before they are ready.
The project was implemented by Custom Technologies Design Lab at ZEP Rehabilitation Centre in Pune and is currently in use at this institution, and has demonstrated increased engagement, motivation, and learning in autistic students who use this system every day.
