At one station, Barton Malow Co. gave the Richmond Public Schools students a chance to check out virtual reality goggles, such as the Oculus Rift, along with augmented reality headsets, such as the Microsoft HoloLens. (Julia Rendleman, VCU University Marketing)
About 400 elementary and middle school children from Richmond Public Schools went to the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for “STEM in Sports Day” to test out, first-hand, Blast Motion technology, soccer balls with internal chips that track the velocity and spin, the Oculus Rift, Microsoft HoloLens and a litany of other modern sports technologies.