SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tactus Immersive Learning Environment
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
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- Recipient company
- Tactus Technologies
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
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- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
The Tactus Immersive Learning Environment TILE is a cost effective virtual reality platform that will enable students to participate in simulations tied to core National Science Education Standards. TILE is for use as a supplement to K 12 science curricula for primary instruction of concepts or for review for individual or small group practice. An example of how TILE might be used when learning about forces and motions might involve students driving race cars and then stopping them to learn about inertia students dropping items of various masses on the earth and the moon to observe the varying effects of gravity or students navigating a freight train to demonstrate resistance.
Technology keywords
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