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NEW CLASSROOM HELPS WYOMING WORKERS LEARN VIRTUAL REALITY

It took a few minutes to get used to.

The classroom full of city of Gillette workers, not students, sat in desks facing the front of the Gillette College Technical Education Center classroom, but they also were faced in all different directions, looking almost like landlocked scuba divers.

Unable to see each other but immersed in virtual reality, they smiled, spun and flailed their arms. Although they work in various city departments, they were virtually taken to a coal mine by the black virtual reality headsets strapped to their heads.

VR goggles protruded from their faces but inside their minds, they experienced what it’s like to stand in

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