The Centre for Technology, Environment, and Design (CTED) at Lethbridge College has announced a collaboration with Liquid Avatar Technologies, a publicly traded global blockchain and fintech solutions firm, to launch a work-integrated learning opportunity in which students will be able to occupy property in the metaverse.
Liquid Avatar Technologies is giving 9,000 plots of land inside its Aftermath Islands Metaverse — a network of areas where users may construct a virtual world parallel to their actual one – as part of the agreement. By the conclusion of the winter 2022 semester, students will be able to participate in the new curriculum and participate in mentorship opportunities.
Lethbridge College, founded in 1957 as Canada’s first publicly financed community college, is a board-governed institution that serves the training and applied research requirements of southern Alberta. Interior Design Technology, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Architectural Animation Technology students will “create” on the virtual island, constructing structures and conducting transactions.
Each pupil will be given a virtual piece of land. The storyline and whatever materials they generate for it will be theirs for as long as they choose. According to Lethbridge Institution, the college will also have a big plot of virtual land that will allow it to serve students with virtual events, learning, and other services.
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Students will learn how to work, play, learn, game, entertain, and earn in the metaverse in the virtual areas collectively known as Lethbridge College Island on Aftermath Islands. In addition to the virtual land, the college will get up to 100,000 in-game currency credits. According to the institution, those credits may be used to develop, acquire, and trade assets such as extra property, objects, landscape things, and even avatars.
CTED students will have hands-on opportunity to build up Lethbridge College Island by collaborating with professionals in the subject as well as instructors who will coach them in the property’s growth.
David Lucatch, president, chief executive officer, and chair of Liquid Avatar Technology, as well as managing director of Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited, has spent the last 25 years creating and bringing technologies to market. He co-founded Aftermath Islands Metaverse, a planned virtual environment that provides internet users with theme-based first-person augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) adventures, quests, games, and integrated e-commerce activities.
Lucatch and the Liquid Avatar Technologies team will also advise Lethbridge College students as they advance their study in the metaverse. Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited is a Barbados corporation owned and operated by Oasis Digital Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liquid Avatar Technologies.
Source: IT World Canada