An Open, Multi-Platform Software Architecture for Online Education in the Metaverse

TL;DR

This paper introduces an open, multi-platform architecture for online education in the metaverse, enabling seamless integration of diverse 3D and XR technologies to create a flexible, scalable educational ecosystem.

Contribution

It presents the Enhanced Reality Teaching Concierge, an open, agnostic networking hub that connects various educational services and clients across multiple platforms and XR modalities.

Findings

Supports diverse 3D display environments

Enables efficient connectivity between services and clients

Facilitates scalable and adaptable educational metaverse

Abstract

Use of online platforms for education is a vibrant and growing arena, incorporating a variety of software platforms and technologies, including various modalities of extended reality. We present our Enhanced Reality Teaching Concierge, an open networking hub architected to enable efficient and easy connectivity between a wide variety of services or applications to a wide variety of clients, designed to showcase 3D for academic purposes across web technologies, virtual reality, and even virtual worlds. The agnostic nature of the system, paired with efficient architecture, and simple and open protocols furnishes an ecosystem that can easily be tailored to maximize the innate characteristics of each 3D display environment while sharing common data and control systems with the ultimate goal of a seamless, expandable, nimble education metaverse.