Work-in-Progress—Determining the Efficacy of Virtual Reality through Experientiality and Biometric

This paper presents work-in-progress of a research project attempting to determine the efficacy of virtual reality in a science-focused education scenario called SolarVR. The research is informed from both academic literature and the heuristic experiences of researchers involved over the past ten years. An antidisciplinary approach to collaboration aims to support the increasing scale of experientiality of student developers. Physiological measures of participants aim to determine VR effectiveness whilst engaged in an immersive task. The blending of quantitative data, informed with insights from qualitative interpretation, emphasizes user-determined creativity for pedagogically appropriate learning in VR.