The new age of coping with change has driven us to employ all the technology to make everything in our day-to-day work and study life available remotely. In the time of virtual education and virtual meetings, this project intends to add to virtual education. Modern times have made us realize that lessons may be held online and do not require a physical presence in the institution of education, but the same cannot be said for laboratory-integrated disciplines. Our answer to having access to laboratories that would necessitate physical participation is to recreate the laboratory and its exercises to deliver an analogous interactive experience through a VR-rendered 3D simulation. In this project, we are replicating a chemical laboratory with 3D animation. This allows the user to do experiments in the same manner as they would in a chemistry laboratory. The simulation is rendered in VR so that the user can interact with the objects in the 3D world. The elements are generated with Blender and the interactions are managed with Unity. Thus universities and institutions that have chemistry laboratory integration into their curricula can benefit tremendously from this project.

Authors:
Belinda Mutunhu Ndlovu, UNISA, South Africa
Ngonidzashe Maphosa, National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
Sibusisiwe Dube, National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe

About the Presenter(s)
Belinda Mutunhu Ndlovu is a Ph.D. in Information Systems student at the University of South Africa. Her primary research interests are in ICT4D,4IR, and Health Informatics.

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