Preserve. Educate. Explore.
Our Mission
HistoryView VR, located in Boston, MA, is the international educational platform for teachers and students to access Interactive 3D Virtual Reality Field Trips powered by Matterport®, Leica® and Insta360®. HistoryView® educates the future by preserving history with 3D laser camera technology. Because of this, students visit historical sites and museum exhibits in school as if they are actually there.
From Classroom to Field Trip – Virtual Reality
Teachers use HistoryView VR Field Trip Program as a tool to bring historical sites and museums to students in the classroom. VR headsets are not required to experience the field trip program and it is available on Chromebooks and tablets. Read this “how to” by Steven Bambury, Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across the JESS Dubai schools in Dubai, UAE, and listen to a segment of the podcast:
HistoryView VR has also been featured on edtech consultant, Jaime Donally’s, ARVRinEDU weekly Twitter chat. Most noteworthy, HistoryView was selected among Top 10 VR Educational Apps: For Fun & Immersive Learning by GetVR, and Best 15 free Virtual Reality apps for education by VUDream.
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Nicholas Clayton, a special education teacher in Victorville, California uses HistoryView VR in the classroom.
HistoryView partners with museums, art galleries, historical heritage sites and schools to create affordable VR Field Trips of exhibits and events. We specialize in 3D scanning, 360° videos & photos, drones, interactive virtual reality tours, and we are a Google Street View Trusted. Our mission is to digitize these spaces to increase the number of people visiting the location physically. Therefore:
- If you are a school, university, a historian, or government official that has an interesting site to be 3D scanned, Create a VR Field Trip!
- If you are a educator, edtech consultant, or school administrator, Contact Us to Sign Up!
- If you are a Matterport Service Partner (MSP), get in touch with us. We are continuously adding new MSPs to join the HistoryView Network to work on future projects.
- If you are looking to become a Matterport Service Partner please contact our team directly at historyview.org@gmail.com.
