Immerse is a the first virtual reality platform created specifically for live language teaching and learning. It allows for real-time student-to-teacher and student-to-student interactions so that learners can gain experience spontaneously speaking the target language they are studying. Currently, the app offers 40+ fully immersive, interactive, contextually relevant, customizable VR environments within which language learners can take language lessons, interact with others, and improve their language skills! There are also spaces where learners can practice independently or with their peers. You can watch overviews of all the different environments here. 

In Immerse, instructors teach from a platform on their desktop computer and students join in VR using Meta Quest 2 headsets. This ensures that the teacher can easily customize and implement their lessons and that the students have a highly-immersive learning experience. You can read more about the reasoning behind this decision here. For security reasons, each teacher and class of students have their own unique access keys and codes that they use to access the platform. This guarantees that students will only encounter their classmates while in VR! 

This page is intended to provide information about how to download and navigate the Immerse desktop application so that you can best teach your students! We will do our best to keep this list up to date, but you can find information about the latest Immerse updates here.

Helpful Information for Teachers 

Getting Started in Immerse

• Downloading the Immerse Desktop Application 

• Computer System Requirements

• Teacher Tutorial 

• Using your Access Keys and Codes 

Facilitation Tools 

• How to screen record your students from Desktop

• Avatar controls 

• Classroom Management 

• Teacher Toolbar

• Interacting with Objects 

• Student Support Panel

• Personal Voice Settings and Teacher Audio Controls and Managing Ambient Audio 

Selecting Environments and Planning Lessons 

• Selecting Environments 

• Video overviews of Scenes 

• The Planning Hub

Example Activities 

• Example Activities with Prompt Cards 

• Example Activities with the Camera 

• Example Activities with the Graphic Organizer

• Example Activities with Nested Prompts

• Example Activities with Activated Prompts

• Example Activities with Multiple Choice

• Example Activities with Object Interaction

Download the full Immerse Teacher Training Guide here. 

Helpful Information for Students 

Getting Started in Immerse VR

• The Meta Quest 2 and the Quest Guardian System

• Using the Quest 2 Controllers 

• Downloading the Immerse VR App

• Opening the Immerse Application 

• VR App Troubleshooting: Updating or Re-downloading the Headset Application

• Lesson Login in VR

Intro to Immerse VR

• VR Care, Health, and Safety

• Moving and Interacting in Immerse VR

• Student Backpack

• Student Virtual Watch 

Download the full Immerse Student Training Guide here.