SITT 2022: Comparison of Fully immersive VR, Desktop VR, and PowerPoint in Food Microbiology Laboratory Instruction by Luxin Wang and Fei Xue

To investigate how Virtual Reality (VR) benefits laboratory course teaching, we designed a VR-based lecture for the food microbiology laboratory course and compared its instructional effectiveness with the conventional PowerPoint slides. Our result indicated that VR could facilitate students’ motivation to better understand concepts by cultivating students’ longer visual attention and fostering a higher sense of presence. By discussing the results with SITT, we hope to better reflect on the implication of our research findings.