CPIFP Hurtado de Mendoza, the public hospitality and tourism school in Granada, Spain, uses an immersive classroom to recreate professional situations that are hard to bring into an ordinary classroom. The room projects onto all four walls and runs the Simmersive platform from DigaliX Solutions on Epson projectors. A sponsored article published in collaboration with Epson describes it as the first in Andalusia able to project on four walls.
How it works
The projection reaches from floor to ceiling, which reinforces the sense of immersion. Teachers can change scenario without physically altering the space, so students can move from working in an international kitchen to a tourism situation or a simulated customer-service encounter under pressure.
Multitouch digital tables communicate with the interactive walls. An infrared laser system lets students interact with the projected content by gesture, without physical contact, while sharing information and working together. Content and resources are stored and synchronised in the cloud, which makes it easier to share experiences between classrooms or schools, and the whole system is managed through a web app that can be controlled from a tablet.
Equipment and support
- Projection: an Epson post reshared by DigaliX says the room is driven by five Epson EB-PU1006W laser projectors with ELP-LX01 lenses.
- Software: Simmersive, developed by DigaliX Solutions.
- Teacher training: Epson also organises training days for teachers on the pedagogical use of the immersive classroom.
Use in teaching
According to the sponsored article, the technology has let the school, which belongs to the national network of vocational training centres of excellence, widen its practical learning and recreate professional situations in a controlled environment. The simulations are high-fidelity scenarios in which students practise customer service, conflict resolution and teamwork. DigaliX also reports that the system is in operation and that teachers have used it.
