Biome
Biome

Biome

Adaptive VR lessons for K-12. Up to 30 students in sync, instructor-led from a tablet dashboard.
2016 · Founder

Biome is a VR classroom system I built for Samsung Gear VR. It started with an early study that showed students learned faster with VR-led instruction. I wanted to see how far that could go.

I built the experiences in Unity. Students wore headsets together and moved through group lessons at the same time. Teachers watched their progress on a dashboard in real time. Each session tracked where students got stuck and fed that data back into the school's LMS.

I grew up around this problem. My mother led a middle school gifted and talented in a blue ribbon school district. I watched her fight with tools that weren't built for how classrooms actually work, especially those who learned differently. Biome was an early exploration into personalized intelligent learning systems. The final classroom will be some form of AI agent that dynamically spawns immersive educational experiences. With Biome, we were many years too early.

Biome — Matt Hoerl