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Brazil, such as many other countries, does not have the capacity to train enough teachers to attend the educational needs of the growing population of children. This has a direct impact on the quality of education that the students receive. The low cost and ease of use of semi-immersive virtual reality environments have recently resulted in a rapid expansion of this technology across the world. In this work, we present a low cost distributed virtual reality system for the education of students from grades K to 12. The proposed system is based on an architecture that allows efficient data distribution in low bandwidth networks. We believe that virtual schools, based on the proposed virtual reality system, where remote teachers and students can exchange ideas and propose activities, may be an important part of the solution to this problem.
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Vidal, C.A., Júnior, A.J.M.L., Almendra, C.C., dos Santos, E.M., de Oliveira, J.P.C., Filho, J.C.S.C. (2002). A Virtual Environment for Distance Learning. In: Watson, D., Andersen, J. (eds) Networking the Learner. WCCE 2001. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 89. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35596-2_10
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