Teacher of the Year: Teaching geometry math with virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx for visualization

Virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx has just been officially launched, just when the COVID-19 epidemic is raging, many gamers have more reasons to sit at home to avoid the epidemic. Mode 'Campaign' of the game lasts up to 10-15 hours, full of elements such as shooting, tunnel exploration, solving puzzles . very interesting.

But some people seem to be more interested in . graffiti. In City 17 in the game, there is a vegetable house with lots of transparent glass doors, and players can use their pens to draw on it. Many people show off their talents, creating beautiful paintings.

A person who draws a soiree and shares it on his Twitter page

Taking advantage of this 'feature', a teacher came up with the unique idea of ​​teaching his math right in the game. In a video posted on Youtube entitled "Playing Half-Life: Alyx: Teaching angle terms in geometry" , the player named Charles Coomber gave a very complete and intuitive lecture on corner, actually a lot easier to understand than the dry Powerpoint site.

Teacher teaches math through virtual reality game Half Life: Alyx

There are already a few applications to teach in virtual reality on the market today, but it may not be possible to make students excited by teaching on . Half Life! Some people say that they hate math, but because this teacher taught in the game, he listened attentively for 15 minutes!

Half Life game: Alyx is being sold at SteamVR for $ 59.99. With the current situation of COVID-19 translation, this game will surely have an increasing number of players, and we will have more creative paintings and lectures on the glass window in City 17 in the near future. .